"I have extremely friendly feelings for German chancellor. I think Angela Merkel is very courageous, and that is one reason I have such great respect for her. But I also know that she has now survived French presidents for 12 years. I am constantly trying to imagine all the mistakes my predecessors made and to avoid repeating them."

-- Emmanuel Macron

#Mistake Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.”
“You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.”
“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”
“The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is, survives him. It can never be buried.”
“For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true. These are the kinds of things that we sit around talking to each other about in our dusty libraries. To see these conversations take place in popular culture is the best thing that could have ever happened.”
“Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?' That's kind of how I'm starting to think.”
“The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.”

Source : Elmore Leonard (2007). “Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing”, William Morrow
“My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.”

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