"Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Winning Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”

Source : Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.9, Quirk Books
“The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist about it, you're talking to someone who wasn't there. It's hopeless. And also it's insulting. It's implying that the work is not an adequate account of itself. To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves.”
“I began to realize that life, despite moments of happiness and joy, is really about discovering priorities and dealing with unforeseen vagaries, differences, obstacles, inconveniences, and imperfections.”
“Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.”
“I'd like to run away From you, But if you didn't come And find me ... I would die.”
“What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?”
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.”

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