"That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win."

-- Nancy Mairs

#Winning Quotes #Irony Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“He, who is gone, was one of the very kindest friends I possessed, and yet he was not kinder perhaps to me, than to others. His intense mind and powerful feelings would, I truly believe, have done the world some service, had his life been spared but he was of too sensitive a nature and thus he was destroyed!”
“Understanding the fact that we are essentially water is the key to uncovering the mysteries of the universe...”

Source : Masaru Emoto (2011). “The Hidden Messages in Water”, p.1, Simon and Schuster
“Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.”
“Regardless of communication between man and man, speech is a necessary condition for the thinking of the individual in solitary seclusion. In appearance, however, language develops only socially, and man understands himself only once he has tested the intelligibility of his words by trial upon others.”
“Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They'll both drive you crazy but if I'm going to blow my brains out for five years, I want something to show for it.”
“Reality is a harsh mistress. She demands our honesty. She demands our work. She demands that we give up comforts, that we let ourselves feel pain, that we accept how small we are and how little control we have over our lives. And she demands that we make her our top priority. But she is more beautiful, and more powerful, and more surprising, and more fascinating, and more endlessly rewarding, than anything we could ever make up about her.”
“because it was then, as he held her in his unwavering gaze, that she knew she was in love with him as well.”
“Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.”

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