"The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right."

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Ringo Starr

#Trying Quotes #Driven Quotes

“The devil is not fighting religion. HeÂ´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.”
“I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.”

Source : "Violets and Vinegar". Book by Jilly Cooper and Tom Hartman, "The Battle Done", 1980.
“Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than men in steel with bloody purposes. Death is not dreadful; 'tis the dread of deathâ€” We die whene'er we think of it!”
“The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible...it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors...to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.”
“We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadnâ€™t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think weâ€™ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.”
“I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.”
“There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.”
“Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.”

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