"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill."

-- Helen Keller

#Skills Quotes #Arrows Quotes #Eagles Quotes

“It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.”
“There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?”

Source : Dan Chaon (2009). “Among the Missing”, p.60, Ballantine Books
“Eddie Drood: Is this why we become agents? To play games, to chase after secrets that are rarely worth all the blood spilled on their behalf...To end up stabbed in the back, just when you thought you'd won, bleeding out in some nameless backstreet...With most people never even knowing who you were, or what you did, or why it mattered?”
“The biggest danger I feel are an emerging group of Westernised, educated, champagne socialists and latte liberals who pontificate about social inequality, democracy and freedom in the comfort of their condos.”
“I'm playing the Great American Songbook - all the blue-sky, puffy-cloud classics. Music that's been missing. I want to be one of the people who ushers it back in. Long as I can do that, man, I'm happy.”

Source : Source: abilitymagazine.com
“In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing”
“I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds; hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.”
“Dancing is still the hardest profession. Gene Kelly said dancing is a manâ€™s game Women have to do the same thing in heels, and have to sing and smile at the same time. Professional athletes donâ€™t even have to do that â€“ and they get to wear sneakers.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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