"Life is short, but its ills make it seem long."

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Publilius Syrus

#Life Quotes #Long Quotes #Life Is Short Quotes

“Portugal is not doing well economically. People are upset and angry. You can feel it on the street. You can tell in the way they drive. We're talking about one of the richest histories. We had an unbelievable empire, and so many maritime discoveries, and how is it that we are now reduced to this? But I still love the country.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.”

Source : Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics
“I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night, and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something.”
“I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.”
“When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.”

Source : R. H. TAWNEY (1920). “THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY”
“My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.”
“Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.”

Source : Gene Kranz (2009). “Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond”, p.204, Simon and Schuster
“I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I work hard to make the words evoke particular images, thoughts, feelings, the mystery of relationships.”

Source : Source: www.jewishbookcouncil.org

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