"But one day, the things that make you free start to keep you down."

-- Jardine Libaire

#One Day Quotes

“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time â€• proof that humans can work magic.”
“"One of the governor's complaints: federal rules that prohibit dispensary owners from putting their money in banks. "If you really want to introduce corruption into legal marijuana," he said, make it an all cash business."”
“Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2016). “Deanna Raybourn Lady Julia Grey Volume 1: Silent in the Grave\Silent in the Sanctuary\Silent on the Moor”, p.66, MIRA
“The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.”

Source : Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.527, Georg Olms Verlag
“My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father's name was hard enough, but to work in pictures to boot was pretty foolhardy. In fact, my father was totally against it. He thought I should be off getting a good education and go into some safe profession.”
“Only 4 percent of the people who live here [Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania] are actually foreign-born. And even fewer of those are refugees. So there's not a whole lot of experience with refugees here.”
“Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.”

Source : David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.94, Profile Books
“The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.”

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