"The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try."

-- Harry Chapin

#Knowing Quotes #Wish Quotes #Age Quotes

“I'm a real people-pleaser.”
“Can a woman not keep her lover without she study to always please him with pleasure? Pew! then let her give up the game. Or shall my lover think with pleasing of me to win me indeed? Faugh! he payeth me then; doth he think I am for hire?”

Source : "Mistress of Mistresses". Book by Eric Rucker Eddison, 1935.
“When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.”

Source : Richard K. Morgan (2009). “The Steel Remains”, p.3, Del Rey
“I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.”
“The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.”
“To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.”
“I don't get any anxiety. I don't because of two reasons. Number one, just breaking through it as a kid and finally getting past it was like okay, nothing's ever going to feel that scary again as that deafening silence of a joke not working. Any joke not working is not as bad as not being able to even try and get on stage.”
“I don't want to ever, ever do something in life that isn't fun. Ever.”

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