"Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion."

-- B. C. Forbes

#Motivational Quotes #Adversity Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“As a country, Americans have to find a way to keep our cities solvent. If large numbers of cities no longer have the necessary tax base, we have to find federal methods to intervene. If we don't, there's a risk of dozens of cities simply being left to their bankrupt fates - and I can't see how that serves anybody's interests in the long run.”
“Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.”

Source : "Farhadi Talks Oscar Front-Runner A Separation; Divorce Drama Questions Iran’s Future". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 30, 2011.
“There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.”
“Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!”
“If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.”

Source : Melanie Rawn (1995). “The Ruins of Ambrai”, Daw Books
“Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.”
“You can't control whether or not you have talent. You can't control whether or not your work will be recognized or valued. But what you can control is how much work you put your art-both in terms of creating it and in terms of getting it out there-and that is where I try to focus my energy.”
“What we suffer, what we endure, what we muff, what we kill, what we miss, what we are guilty of, is done by us, as individuals, in private.”

Source : Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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