"I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life."

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Source : Leroy Neiman (2013). “All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs”, p.28, Rowman & Littlefield

LeRoy Neiman

#Beautiful Quotes #Girl Quotes #Goodbye Quotes

“But I'll be fine. I'll be with Tod. He's a good guy, you know." He just hides it under all the sarcasm and curls.”
“Shattered dreams are never random. They are always a piece in a larger puzzle, a chapter in a larger story. The Holy Spirit uses the pain of shattered dreams to help us discover our desire for God, to help us begin dreaming the highest dream. They are ordained opportunities for the Spirit to awaken, then to satisfy our highest dream.”
“Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism”

Source : Frank H. Knight, Ross B. Emmett (1999). “Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight, Volume 1: "What is Truth" in Economics?”, University of Chicago Press
“Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.”

Source : Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). “Popular Scientific Lectures”, p.195, Cambridge University Press
“It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.”
“Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.”

Source : "Quote Unquote : A Handbook of Quotations" by M. P. Singh, (p. 96), 2007.
“But countless studies have shown that a cue and a reward, on their own, aren't enough for a new habit to last. Only when your brain starts expecting the reward--craving the endorphins or sense of accomplishment--will it become automatic to lace up your jogging shoes each morning. The cue, in addition to triggering a routine, must also trigger a craving for the reward to come.”
“Then he looked by him, and was ware of a damsel that came riding as fast as her horse might gallop upon a fair palfrey. And when she espied that Sir Lanceor was slain, then she made sorrow out of measure, and said, O Balin ! two bodies hast thou slain and one heart, and two hearts in one body, and two souls thou hast lost.”

Source : Thomas Malory (1907). “The Arthurian tales”, p.41, Рипол Классик

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