"If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose."

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Source : John Cowper Powys (1944). “The art of growing old”

John Cowper Powys

#Purpose Quotes #Action Quotes #Compromise Quotes

“I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.”
“There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.”
“We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.”
“Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?”
“They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.”

Source : Alistair Cooke (2015). “Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.50, Open Road Media
“Iron is the final peal of a starâ€™s natural life.”
“I'm not the greediest person. Of course, I work in a business where that's all relative and there's a lot of money to be made. I think I'm satisfied making as much as I have and I don't feel particularly driven to have more.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“She used my toothbrush to clean the toilet.”

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