"A hero in one age will be a hero in another."

-- Charlotte Lennox

#Hero Quotes #Age Quotes

“Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.”

Source : Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.35, Marshall Cavendish
“I work seriously with complete integrity. I never, never, never have offered a part to anyone who didn't deserve it, and I've never not delivered when I do offer a part. My word is better than a contract.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly feared. The sea and the desert are both hungry, they have things to be getting on with so you do not go into them lightly.”

Source : Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.33, Pan Macmillan
“Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.”

Source : Betty Rollin (2008). “Last Wish”, p.122, PublicAffairs
“In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.”
“A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.”
“My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian”
“The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions.... I now speak of extensive scholarship and ripe culture in science and art.... It is not large possessions, it is large expectations, or rather large hopes, that stimulate the ambition of the young.”

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