"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes."

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Source : Thomas Hardy, Michael Millgate (1984). “The life and work of Thomas Hardy”

Thomas Hardy

#Hope Quotes #Disappointment Quotes #Scar Quotes

“How do you keep ninety people together with one stick? I've got two sticks and I can't keep five people together.”
“'Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff Beck Band, wherein he cut his teeth on American audiences for $75 a week plus expenses, and wisely ignores his generally inferior work with the Faces.”
“If we do have any iPhone users out there, I have incredibly great news for you. I've developed after about six months and finally perfected and it'll be out on the market soon, an app that you'll all want. It allows you to make a phone call.”
“As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member”
“The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”
“Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful.......”

Source : Nicola Barker (2012). “The Yips: A Novel”, p.115, Open Road Media
“If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely, and in a humility that passes understanding. If the world exists not chiefly that we may love God, but that God may love us, yet that very fact, on a deeper level, is so for our sakes. If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.”
“My daughter could do and be anything, without having to fight to get through the glass ceiling. Without having it be so extraordinary. If my daughter went to produce a soundtrack for a movie, there would be nothing extraordinary about a girl doing it. When I did it, it was highly unusual.”

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