"I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated."

-- Glenda Jackson

#Failure Quotes #Defeated Quotes #Disappointed Quotes

“gossip is just the small change of conversation.”
“You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.”
“I was in the back part of the bunker, so I had to carry the whole bunker. It was probably 20 yards.”
“I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted. The combination of all the tendencies to the good has produced the best; but as there are goods that are incompatible together, this combination and this result can introduce the destruction of some good, and as a result some evil.”

Source : Letter to Louis Bourguet in late 1712. "The Shorter Leibniz Texts: A Collection of New Translations" edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 208, 2006.
“As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.”
“The stage I chose--a subject fair and free-- 'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property. All common exhibitions open lie, For praise or censure, to the common eye. Hence are a thousand hackney writers fed; Hence monthly critics earn their daily bread. This is a general tax which all must pay, From those who scribble, down to those who play.”
“I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy.”
“Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.”

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