"There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?"

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Source : Diana Peterfreund (2009). “TAP & GOWN (EBK)”, p.264, Delta

Diana Peterfreund

#Giving Up Quotes #Maturity Quotes #Mature Quotes

“I come from a generation in England that considered making money or trying to promote yourself to be morally suspect.”

Source : "Radiohead Artist Stanley Donwood". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 15, 2010.
“I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Churchill , he is a great man. He is, of course, our enemy and has always been the enemy of Communism, but he is an enemy one must respect, an enemy one likes to have.”

Source : "Tito: A Biography". Book by Jasper Ridley, 1994.
“I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.”
“You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.”

Source : "Julie Walters: 'Parts for women disappear as you age'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.
“I want people to feel good about themselves.”
“He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.”
“Now I approach climbing differently. I have learned less effort and energy, less obsession, and more feeling, as with piano, more emphasis and less frenzy.”

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