"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."

-- Pliny the Elder

#Failure Quotes #Adversity Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.”
“Of science and logic he chatters, As fine and as fast as he can; Though I am no judge of such matters, I'm sure he's a talented man.”

Source : 'The Talented Man'
“In the real world of competition, the players want to compete and they want to compete at the very highest level.”
“It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bush. He reads, he picks stuff up, he talks to people. And he's pretty serious about his own Christian beliefs.”
“A PERFUME SHOULD BE AS IMBUED WITH MEANING AS IT IS LIGHT TO WEAR.”
“During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as 'sketches' for ideas that are often later translated to the larger scale of public commissions.”

Source : Luis Fernández Galiano, Martin Filler (2000). “El siglo americano: The American century”
“I've got to tell you, I've got 99 problems, and palsy is just one.”

Source : "I got 99 problems... palsy is just one". TEDWomen Talk, www.ted.com. December 2013.
“Music is inarticulate poesy.”

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