"Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block."

-- Debbie Allen

#Beautiful Quotes #Block Quotes #Independent Quotes

“You can only predict things after they have happened.”

Source : 'Le Rhinocèros' (1959) act 3
“You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.”
“If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you can call it 'Mary-Anne', you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peace-keeping missions - the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level.”
“Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.”
“We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.”
“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.”
“I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!”
“The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills.”

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