"The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim."

-- Margaret Fuller

#Men Quotes #Law Quotes #Effort Quotes

“The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.”
“The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.”
“A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now that's a question.”

Source : "Fictional character: Narrator". "Stardust", m.imdb.com. 2007.
“Forget thyself to marble.”
“I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.”

Source : "Forever Young". Interview With Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.
“Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.”
“Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.”
“Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

You may also like: