"Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates."

-- J. K. Rowling

#Fate Quotes #Talent Quotes #Caprice Quotes

“I didnâ€™t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.”
“Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.”

Source : Giovanni Ruffini (1858). “Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].”, p.144
“It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.”

Source : Susan Fenimore Cooper (1998). “Rural Hours”, p.126, University of Georgia Press
“Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.”
“Within forty years of their arrival in the Plymouth colony, the first white settlers were afraid their children had lost the dedication and religious conviction of the founding generation. Ever since, Americans have looked to the next generation not only with love and solicitude but with a good measure of anxiety, worrying whether they themselves were good parents, fearful that their children would not turn out well.”

Source : Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“Embrace an effortless a-line silhouette in the seasons must have indigo shades.”
“After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.”
“The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!”

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