"The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?"

-- Andrew Sean Greer

#Pain Quotes #Possibility Quotes #Powerless Quotes

“I would say what scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me.”

Source : "Demi Moore & Amanda De Cadenet: In Conversation". Interview With Amanda De Cadenet, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 4, 2012.
“When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.”
“If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.”

Source : William Allen White (1906). “In Our Town”
“Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen.”
“Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.”

Source : John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, Susanna Centlivre (1791). “British Theatre: Bold stroke for a wife”
“I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.”
“The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.”
“I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.”

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