"Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases."

-- Jeremy Collier

#Monday Quotes #Please Quotes #Turns Quotes

“The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one's inclinations. There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient. I am not as strong as I might be, but I have long known and practiced patience. And if my descendants wish to be as I am, they must study patience.”
“I have to say it's been tough to leave the Ferrari family, which has been a big part of my career.”
“Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.”
“It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.”
“we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.”

Source : Ida M. Tarbell (2015). “All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography”, p.318, Ravenio Books
“Everybody has bad at-bats -- except McCutchen.”
“One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.”
“The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.”

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