"The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods lay."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Night Quotes #Half Quotes #Green Quotes

“To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.”
“I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically stems from self-knowledge.”

Source : Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row
“I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.”

Source : William Golding (1983). “Lord of the Flies”, p.211, Penguin
“I had absolutely no idea of how I was supposed to play. I never learned music! I was just thinking: "if anyone can do it, I can do it too."”
“It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.”
“Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.”
“People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.”
“It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.”

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