"I didnâ€™t write that song to try and win you over, or to steal you away from him. I wrote it because I knew I never could."

-- Tiffanie DeBartolo

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Winning Quotes

“The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.”
“There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence ...”

Source : Alice Meynell (2015). “The Children”, p.6, Alice Meynell
“Does it really matter if I choose the bus over a BMW, and generic over Gucci? Because the car, the wardrobe, the zip code-those are just nouns, things that are fun to have around, sure, but in the end, they have nothing to do with the real me. Nothing to do with who I really am.”
“It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the morality of a situation. It gets frustrating and demoralizing. This is precisely where character comes in. All throughout history special people have felt compelled to do what they objectively saw as right and good - even in the face of humiliation or rejection or expulsion or torture or death. That is because they believed that certain ideas were more important than individual well-being.”
“Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them.”
“Let me guess,â€ Eli said, his voice that low, even timbre, as always. â€œDrinking from kegs also falls under outdoor activity.â€ I just looked at him, standing there in jeans and the same blue hoodie heâ€™d had on the first time I met him. Maybe it was the embarrassment, which had been bad enough before I had an audience, but I was instantly annoyed. I said, â€œAre we outside?â€ He glanced round, as if needing to confirm this. â€œNope.â€ â€œThen no.â€ I turned my attention back to the keg.”
“Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.”

Source : Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.114, Random House
“A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.”

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