"Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days."

-- John Brown

#Clouds Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Never become an artist if you can't learn to draw.”
“I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.”
“Well I've always said that fame and fortune - the two things that one seems to go after when they go into show business was not at all what it was cracked up to be as far as I was concerned. I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.”
“There's so much impetus for change, there's so much desire to not have this oil economy continue, but it continues nonetheless. And people often assume that's because technology is not good enough, or there's no money being invested, or it's just not ready yet. It's none of that. It's actually a system of government and corporate behavior that work in collusion and lock step with one another to deflect any momentum toward true alternative energies.”
“Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles.”

Source : Roger Ward Babson (1920). “Fundamentals of Prosperity: What They are and Whence They Come”
“Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.”
“Everything happens for a reason and that reason is there to assist me.”
“Talent comes with an individual name tag.”

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