"Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance."

--

Source : Laura (Riding) Jackson, Laura Riding (1939). “Lives of Wives”

Laura Riding

#Disappointment Quotes #Self Quotes #Victory Quotes

“The more you know, the more you owe.”
“Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife”

Source : Joaquin Miller (1872). “Joaquin: Et Al”, p.49
“I believe [the Department of Energy] should be judged not by the money we direct to a particular State or district, company, university or national lab, but by the character of our decisions. The Department of Energy serves the country as a Department of Science, a Department of Innovation, and a Department of Nuclear Security.”
“Be hopeful at all times and walk in faith, but above all seek love an walk in it. God is love, and when we walk in love we show Him to those we come in contact with.”
“The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.”

Source : William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W.H. Hudson”
“Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.”
“I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.”
“The drums are what drives the whole thing. It's the backbone of the song.”

You may also like: