"I'm constantly trying to make myself better, to learn more. I didn't finish college, so I feel like I'm always having to prove myself. I don't want to feel like the smallest person in the room."

-- Nina Dobrev

#College Quotes #Trying Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“Don't expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their 'perfect' version is saved for jennah.”
“This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise. Their aid they yield to all: they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone; Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd; Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects, what they show to kings.”

Source : George Crabbe, C. T. (1829). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe, Etc. [With a Portrait and a Prefatory Memoir Signed: C. T.]”, p.29
“Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.”
“We will destroy laughing, we will set fires laughing, we will kill laughing... and society will fall!!”
“Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough”
“The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries.”

Source : Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”, Bloomsbury Press
“For we constantly deal with practical problems, with moulders, contractors, derricks, stonemen, trucks, rubbish, plasterers and what-not-else, all the while trying to soar into the blue.”

Source : "The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens".
“The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, you will feel more joy in the beautiful finish of a beautiful phrase than that caused by the loudest applause of an immense audience. The latter excites for a moment; the former endures forever.”

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