"Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes"

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Balance Quotes #Trying Quotes #Ada Quotes

“Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.”

Source : Robert Burton (1924). “The Anatomy of Melancholy ... in Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally, Historically Opened & Cut Up by Democritus Junior (Robert Burton) with a Satirical Pref. Conducing to the Following Discourse”
“Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity”
“Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.”

Source : Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books
“Church unity comes from corporate humility.”
“The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.”
“Recording music is not really the healthiest thing for the body.”

Source : "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.”

Source : Donald Hall (2017). “Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)”, p.59, North Point Press
“Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.”

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