"I was unlucky, like my country."

-- Paul Keres

#Country Quotes #Unlucky Quotes

“I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.”
“To me, the most worrisome part of traveling comes before any of the traveling actually occurs: the suitcase-packing process. It's a challenging and anxiety-filled process - I am caught between wanting my suitcase to be light and worrying I am going to need every single item in my bedroom.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.”
“Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast”
“Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the period from 1600 to 1900 for arousing and channeling desire.”

Source : Susan McClary (2017). “Reading Music: Selected Essays”, p.147, Routledge
“We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.”
“If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.”
“Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.”

Source : "Fast Food Dating Your 2 Cents". Book by Peter Sacco and Jennifer Schott, 2011.

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