"He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living."

-- Horace

“I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.129, Petrarca Press
“Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In the past, in order to continue as a candidate, a serious candidate, you had to be in the top three finishes in Iowa. You had to be in the top two out of New Hampshire. All our presidents elected in the past half-century finished either first or second in New Hampshire and in the top three in Iowa. That changed with the Citizens United, when we gave unlimited amounts of money.”
“There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.”
“I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.”

Source : "Matt Bomer Tells the Personal Story Behind His Heartbreaking ‘Normal Heart’ Performance". Interview with Kevin Fallon, www.thedailybeast.com. May 21, 2014.
“The first thing which will be judged among a man's deeds on the Day of Resurrection is the Prayer. If this is in good order then he will succeed and prosper but if it is defective then he will fail and will be a loser.”
“This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough.”
“We tend to think that, in a traditional organisation, people are producing results because management wants results, but the essence of a high-quality organisation is people producing results because they want the results. It's puzzling we find that hard to understand, that if people are really enjoying, they'll innovate, they'll take risks, they'll have trust with one another because they are really committed to what they're doing and it's fun”

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