"A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death."

-- Rick Riordan

#Leadership Quotes #Despair Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“I love putting two things next to each other that don't necessarily belong, because then there's sort of a third atmosphere, a third space that is created depending on who the reader is. Some people will immediately make the links between who's in each section and see exactly what's going on and some people won't. And I don't think that matters at all.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”
“She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.”
“Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.”

Source : Shan Sa (2009). “Empress: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins
“William Tell could take an apple off your head, [Phil] Taylor could take out a processed pea.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.”

Source : Andrew Murray (2013). “Jesus Himself”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
“The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.”

Source : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.84, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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