"We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to."

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Tobias Wolff

#Talent Quotes #Appetite Quotes

“We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.”
“If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.”
“When I was single and on Tinder, that was a good little "Hey, did you ever see this movie?" thing. I would never bring it up myself, but if they mentioned it, then cool, that could work for me. But then on the other hand, if they're like a superfan, that could be weird if that's all they're seeing. They think of you as that character more than who you actually are.”
“Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and to cheer.”

Source : Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.5, Applewood Books
“If you fail to plan, you pretty much plan to fail.”
“Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.”

Source : Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 12, 2003.
“Kant does not think that the silly commandment "universalize your maxims" is the be-all and end-all of ethics or that it provides us with some sort of general decision procedure that is supposed to tell us what to do under all circumstances.”
“Emotion without action is irrelevant.”

Source : "Give peace a chance: bringing peace into the curriculum" by Jo Hayward, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2012.

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