"Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go."

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Source : Ford Madox Ford (2003). “The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion”, p.178, Broadview Press

Ford Madox Ford

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“I had a pretty regular childhood, with a rad mum who taught me to love reading and thinking and laughing, and (as far as I was concerned) a regular dad who drove trucks for a living and did radio interviews on weekends and got stopped in the street a lot when we went out.”
“There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.”
“There are four purposes of improvement: easier, better, faster, and cheaper. These four goals appear in the order of priority.”

Source : Shigeo Shingo (1988). “Non-Stock Production: The Shingo System of Continuous Improvement”, p.94, CRC Press
“Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka.”
“s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.”
“There's no Asian [vocalist] that's huge out there. So I want to do that. I want to break that mold.”
“I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn't been a violation on the ground of either poverty or race. If we can ever get that straightened out, it will help. But, of course, the real answer to it is to do away with the death penalty.”
“I'm the kind of person who just can't wait to get on a train and not know where I'm going. I definitely want to live life to the fullest. And that's the type of man I'm attracted to - somebody with that spontaneous spirit.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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