"My good lady,â€™ interrupted Clent, â€˜are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated the chronology of his nativity?â€™ Seconds passed. A beetle flew into Mistress Leapâ€™s hair while she stared at Clent, then it struggled free and flew off again. â€˜Did you lie about when he was born?â€™ translated Mosca."

-- Frances Hardinge

#Lying Quotes #Hair Quotes #Luck Quotes

“Makes no matter if I'm performing in a grocery store, you're always gonna get 150%.”

Source : FaceBook post by Eddie Griffin from Mar 19, 2014
“Grandfather says that when your friends die you must not cry. You must not hurt anybody or do harm to anyone. You must not fight. Do right always. It will give you satisfaction in life.”
“I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult.”
“The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.”

Source : "Cynthia Kenyon: 'The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected'". Interview with Catherine de Lange, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.
“When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world.”
“I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.”
“I think we're in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve - you know, to be completely disgusted with injustice to the point that you will have to take some huge leaps of faith. And it may take one person leading many.”

Source : "At Last, Harriet Tubman Strides Onto Our Screens". Interview with David Greene, radio.wpsu.org. December 26, 2016.
“When I'm assembling a book I concentrate as though I were writing a poem. A truly imagined arrangement will indicate gaps and generate new poems. I re-read the new poems in my folder in the hope that this might happen.”

Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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