"There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner."

-- Franklin P. Adams

#Winning Quotes #Common Quotes #Loser Quotes

“As long as you're open-minded you can learn stuff from anyone.”
“We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance is almost invisible to us. To use a metaphor drawn from glass, it may be revealing for us to re-focus, to stop looking through glass, and let our eyes dwell on it for a moment to contemplate its wonder.”

Source : Alan MacFarlane, Gerry Martin (2011). “The Glass Bathyscaphe: How Glass Changed the World”, p.4, Profile Books
“... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.”

Source : Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”
“An idea is salvation by imagination.”
“Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.”
“McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.”
“Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”
“She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.”

Source : Ilsa J. Bick (2012). “Drowning Instinct”, p.8, Carolrhoda Lab ™

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