"Sisters, you are each like the lioness at the gate. This means that there has to be some prioritizing. I was taught years ago that when our priorities are out of order, we lose power. If we need power and influence to carry out our mission, then our priorities have to be straight."

-- Julie B. Beck

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“In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.”
“Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.”

Source : The Reflex, Oct. 1927
“I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.”
“Never give up...never ever give up.”
“I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.”
“Why do people stop developing, or, like they stop the way you can rate their, psychologically, their development? Where they stop, and just from being children to maybe stopping at a very adolescent age, and they stay there until they die. Physically die. I mean, they react adolescently. They don't change. They don't develop. They don't â€” it's that continual read, that process which is is the total threat for the ego.”

Source : "Edie: Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.
“Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?”

Source : Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.657, Macmillan
“It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.”

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