"A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations."

-- Mark Richard

#Defeated Quotes #Explaining Quotes #Storyteller Quotes

“Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest; then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shall possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.”
“On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.”
“Be grateful for each moment we have and be happy, but more than anything live it fully.”
“Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness!”
“A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.”
“The persistent advocates of contraceptive-style sex education have become more and more resourceful in using taxpayer funds to impose their casual-sex attitudes and explicit-sex instruction on other people's children.”
“When I first started my own brand, when I needed an icon, I had no other icon but myself. I had to create that.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.”

Source : US Golf Association Interview, www.usga.org. August 11, 2012.

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