"I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that."

-- James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

#Privacy Quotes #Surrender Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“The ball must be as slippery as a wet baby.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.”
“You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like thisâ€¦ Ready â€ â€œReady.â€ â€œAt least I tried.”
“Images are altered in many ways, to many degrees, and for many reasons, so it's important for viewers to be informed of both.”
“Everybody is struggling to refine their views in opposition to the other people. And that's one of the most important things that philosophy actually has to teach us that you have to air your views and bring them to the table with people - with whom you disagree very much.”
“Practice is the battle you must win.”
“I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously, have lost all before they arrive at my age-& remain like Swift's Stulbruggs-cut and dry for life, making no use of their earlier-gained treasures:-whereas, I seem to be on the threshold of knowledge.”

Source : L. Candace Pezzera, Edward Lear, Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art (1982). “How pleasant to know Mr. Lear: watercolors by Edward Lear from Rhode Island collections”
“in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.”

Source : Radclyffe Hall (2015). “The Well of Loneliness: The Classic of Lesbian Fiction”, p.394, Anchor

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