"I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself."

-- George Eliot

#Thinking Quotes #Fortune Quotes #Cheerfulness Quotes

“Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it served me well. - on preparing for World Championship versus Garry Kasparov”
“Yes," he said. "I am sure. I double-checked everything after you went home yesterday. I even made a few improvements, just in case." The first part of that reassured her. The second part... not so much. "What kind of improvements?" "Oh, nothing, really. Mostly just streamlining. You really did very well; I certainly don't want you to think that I am one of those people who has to be in control all the- Oh, well, I suppose that's actually true- I do have to be in control all the time. But only because I am in charge, of course.”
“Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.”

Source : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Norman MacAfee, Luciano Martinengo (1982). “Poems”, New York : Random House
“I'm a slave to the beats of the story, not to the words we use to tell the story.”
“While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.”

Source : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”, p.107, Bible Study Steps
“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong”
“Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.”

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