"And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late."

-- Mahmoud Darwish

#Understanding Quotes #Too Late Quotes

“Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.”
“There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”
“When Karl Lagerfeld does a documentary, it's Karl Lagerfeld spouting in front of the camera for two hours. Valentino isn't like that. He's not very verbally expressive. He's very controlled and he needs to be perfect all the time - never a hair out of place, always the impeccable outfit.”
“Anything on paper is obsolete!”
“Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.”
“I bet most of us have experienced at some point the joys of less: college - in your dorm, traveling - in a hotel room, camping - rig up basically nothing, maybe a boat. Whatever it was for you, I bet that, among other things, this gave you a little more freedom, a little more time.”
“You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you".”
“Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown the light again and again, growing stronger each time. If you think it will keep for the times you need it, you are wrong. It is like any other part of your strength. If you ignore it, the bag will be empty when you need it most.”

Source : Conn Iggulden (2013). “Conqueror: The Complete 5-Book Collection”, p.78, HarperCollins UK

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