"I always say I was born too late in the world, too old."

-- Olivier Martinez

#World Quotes #Too Late Quotes #Born Quotes

“No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.”
“The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.”
“Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.”

Source : "SIR MIX-A-LOT: The Forward-Thinking Hip-Hop Icon Is Getting Back Into The Entertainment Industry". Interview with Nick Hughes, www.businessinsider.com. June 22, 2011.
“We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it, and no matter how we fouled it, there was always more over the next hill, or so it seemed.”

Source : William H. Whyte (2012). “The Last Landscape”, p.1, University of Pennsylvania Press
“The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems.”
“The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.”
“It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.”
“A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene.”

Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.8

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