"I can accept no responsibility for any changes in your existence, miraculous or otherwise. You must take responsibility for your own life. You must have your own life because if you haven't had at least that, what have you had?"

-- Martin Firrell

#Responsibility Quotes #Accepting Quotes #Existence Quotes

“We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.”
“If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, letâ€™s go head-to-head [with Marvel Studios].”

Source : "X-men’s Bryan Singer Versus Avengers And Iron Man". Interview with James Hoare, www.scifinow.co.uk. May 20, 2014.
“It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides inâ€”her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.”
“In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.”

Source : Alfred Brendel (2015). “Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures”, p.167, Biteback Publishing
“All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered.”
“But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.”

Source : William Bradford (1952). “Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647”, p.95, Rutgers University Press
“We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.”
“Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now.”

Source : Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.375, Scholastic Inc.

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