"Don't mistake niceness for weakness."

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Jennifer Granholm

#Mistake Quotes #Weakness Quotes #Niceness Quotes

“Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.”
“Everyone should be praised by the lips of his neighbor, and not by his own mouth. Everyone should be commended by the work he has done, not by what he wanted to do.”
“Liking someone doesn't make you weak.”
“I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.”
“Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.”
“Fear is prophetical of evil.”
“Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but life rarely works out in the way we expect, and our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways”

Source : Jane Green (2006). “Swapping Lives”, p.10, Penguin
“Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.”

Source : "Glee Star Secrets!". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. April 26, 2012.

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