"For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was."

-- May Sarton

#Self Confidence Quotes #Age Quotes #Weakness Quotes

“I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.”

Source : "Richard Russo on Painting a Canvas With His Novels". HBO Interview, www.hbo.com.
“I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play. I try to embrace the silliness of it.”
“I really value the freedom I have as a Christian that's an artist but not necessarily a Christian artist. I think it can be hard to express certain things about faith when there are a pretty specific set of expectations around what you need to talk about and how you're talking about it.”

Source : Source: mousertime.blogspot.com
“The lasting legacy of the Cooter Smash is that I'm the first to know when it's going to rain. That's right. I both sing and predict the weather with my hoo hoo.”
“Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.”
“What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?”

Source : 1747 Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes, l.23-4.
“I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I'm trying to be more nuanced and realistic. I think there has to be a serious examination of the shortcomings of the Euro structure. Euro central institutions, whether it be fiscal policy, monetary policy, financial regulation, are simply not as robust as they are in a currency that has a national government behind it.”
“It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.”

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