"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."

-- Honore de Balzac

#Love Quotes #Sisterhood Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.”
“Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.”
“All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”

Source : "Condensed History Lesson" by Arthur H. Secord, Readers' Digest, Volume 38, No. 226, February 1941.
“A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.”
“The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.”

Source : Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.36, Routledge
“When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.”
“Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.”
“I'm not afraid to delay the schedule to make sure that this is the film that I want, that this is the best that I can do at that point.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview: Wong Kar Wai". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 10, 2008.

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