"The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think."

-- Derek Landy

#Pain Quotes #Regret Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique.”
“In order to complete any successful and streamlined qualification effort, a comprehensive plan should be developed which bridges the GEP/commissioning phases with the qualification phases of the project.”
“Have you ever thought about letting Cheesus into your Life?”
“Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss.”

Source : Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.934, Pan Macmillan
“The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”
“What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.”

Source : James Thomas Fields (1881). “Underbrush”
“When I was 14, a lot of people said, "She's such a good actress, she loves theater, she looks like a woman, she should consider moving to L.A. and trying to do this professionally." My parents were hesitant, but they would take me.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.”

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