"Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed."

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Source : Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday

Hortense Calisher

#Uncles Quotes #Smart Quotes #Believe Quotes

“It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.”
“Someone ought to write a novel about me,”
“There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.”
“I decided to try things, and I started to do things that would take me out of my comfort zone, and a lot of the times, that will cause you to either sink or swim. Really, I just lean on my inner circle and my faith to try to continue to encourage me so that I'm never out. I can be down, but I'm never out.”
“enter into the life of the trees. Know your relationship and understand their language, unspoken, unwritten talk. Answer back to them with their own dumb magnificence, soul words, earth words, the God in you responding to the God in them.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.56, D & M Publishers
“I think we're really - we're doing a really great job doing our show, and other shows are doing a great job doing theirs, and we'll just see what people have to say.”
“On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.”
“Everything I know now . . . the pitfalls, the highs and lows, everything . . . it taught me and made stronger.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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