"For we constantly deal with practical problems, with moulders, contractors, derricks, stonemen, trucks, rubbish, plasterers and what-not-else, all the while trying to soar into the blue."

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Source : "The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens".

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

#Perseverance Quotes #Blue Quotes #Trying Quotes

“When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.”
“Your primary calling is to worship ... to pursue celebration and rejoicing as a way of life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Jun 03, 2012
“When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.”

Source : "Influential R & B singer, musician" by Randy Lewis, articles.latimes.com. January 19, 2012.
“New ways of seeing can disclose new thingsÂ… But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?”

Source : William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.25, Hachette UK
“What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? It might be wise as you deal with coalition efforts to think about the possibilities of going for fifty years.”
“There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.”
“Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself”

Source : Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.102, Courier Corporation
“I think one thing we went through was common to a lot of people: You work your whole life to achieve something, then you achieve it and find out that you still have good days and bad days. So you start thinking, 'Is that all there is?' After a while you calm down and get back to work.”

Source : Song: Is That All There Is?, 2003

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