"Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up."

-- Peter De Vries

#Pick Me Up Quotes #Trying Quotes #Despair Quotes

“The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.”
“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
“Every hour comes with some little ***** of God's will fastened upon its back.”
“Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.”

Source : George Foreman (2010). “Knockout Entrepreneur: My Ten-Count Strategy for Winning at Business”, p.80, Thomas Nelson Inc
“I played piano. I've always liked piano. My father played piano. Actually, to be fair, the sound of the harpsichord did annoy him a bit, and I thought, how can I annoy Dad? I'll play the harpsichord.”
“As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me.”

Source : Walter De La Mare (1944). “Collected Rhymes and Verses”
“He caught that with the outside of his instep.”
“Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.”

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