"I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things â€“ once commenced â€“ only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending â€“ sweet or sour â€“ and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?"

-- A. S. Byatt

#Sweet Quotes #Greed Quotes #Needs Quotes

“As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.”
“The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is,”
“I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!”
“At a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don't have to worry about it. They can just go for it because they believe in themselves.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually born to succeed. King George VI was 41 when the abdication of Edward VIII propelled him suddenly and unexpectedly to take up the crown; and Queen Elizabeth II spent her first decade with no inkling thay she herself might one day have to reign. Taken together, these examples suggest that the best preparation for the job of sovereign is not to be prepared for it at all, ir not to be too well prepared for it, or for too long.”
“Adventure is a sign of incompetence.”

Source : Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1927). “My Life with the Eskimos”
“The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, youâ€™ll also, by implication â€¦ believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.”
“This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane; Roger Yossarian, the draft dodger and coward; Rupert Bond, still a virgin and can't keep a secret; Tracy Capulet, who has slept her way round Verona twice; and Nancy Potter, who is a Muggle.”

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