"We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves."

-- William Styron

#Acceptance Quotes #Goal Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.”
“Maybe I'd like to be a little more than friends with Ryan Gosling, but I'd just like to hang out occasionally.”
“People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and just love it. They love their laptops like their best friend, but they don't love a record for its sound quality and its artwork.”
“If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would (hello!) find something else to love.”
“My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.”

Source : "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson (November 7, 1943 speech to Gauleiters in Munich), 1997.
“The Republican candidates clashed on terrorism, immigration and foreign policy in their fifth debate.They all said President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton have not kept America safe.”
“Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.”

Source : Edward Glaeser (2011). “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier”, p.136, Pan Macmillan
“We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.”

Source : Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.201

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