"I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over."

-- Stanislaw Lem

#Ideas Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.”
“I love receiving fan mail.”
“Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase of food may be compared to a great reservoir of water, supplied by a moderate stream. The faster population increases, the more help will be got to draw off the water, and consequently an increasing quantity will be taken every year. But the sooner, undoubtedly, will the reservoir be exhausted, and the streams only remain.”

Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.301, Penguin UK
“I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.”

Source : Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen”, p.571, Simon and Schuster
“I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.”
“I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“someone had tried to warn me of the kind of catastrophe that is likely to occur when you involve yourself too closely in one of those destinies that is ringed around by the transient tinsel of human applause.”

Source : Mary Deasy (1955). “The Boy who Made Good”
“The secret to thriving is the knowledge that we are never simply victims of our bodies. Itâ€™s very reassuring to know that we all have within us the ability to heal from anything and go on to live joy-filled lives.”

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