"Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different"

-- Tana French

#Growing Up Quotes #Parent Quotes #Matter Quotes

“On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team.”
“I`ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by no means overlooking the rough and rocky years I`ve lived through. But I was not brought up thinking life would be easy. I always expected to work hard for my money and to get nothing I did not earn. And the bad years, it seems to me, were so few that only a dyed-in-the-wool grouch who enjoys feeling sorry for himself would complain.”

Source : Buster Keaton, Charles Samuels (2015). “My Wonderful World Of Slapstick”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing
“One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy.”
“The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free and easy chat with others.”
“A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.”
“He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head.”
“Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system”
“One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.”

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