"If you don’t almost fail, then it wasn’t hard enough"

-- Leo Houlding

#Failing Quotes #Enough Quotes #Hard Quotes

“Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.”
“And so I continue in borderline poverty, save for my one indulgence, no, my single absolute necessity: I take cabs. Yes, on occasion, when I wish to see what people with unpleasant skin conditions are wearing, I do take the subway. I have never, I am proud to say, taken the bus, because people who take the bus have given up.”

Source : Paul Rudnick (2009). “I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey”, Harper
“The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.”
“He picked up the wrench and broke the guyâ€™s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebodyâ€™s weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemyâ€™s abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctorâ€™s wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her.”
“It happens every once in awhile at the federal level when the solicitor general, on behalf of the U.S., will confess error or decline to defend a law. I don't know what is going through the [Obama] administration's thought process on 'don't ask, don't tell.' It would be appropriate for them to say 'the law has been deemed unconstitutional, we are not going to seek further review of that.'”
“O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.”
“You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.”
“The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.”

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