"We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are."

-- V. S. Pritchett

“No choice is the wrong choice as long as you make a choice. The only wrong choice is choosing not to make one.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.”
“Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.”
“I wrote six versions of a 30-second tease for an NBA game. You never get it right on the first try.”
“After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.”
“A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.”

Source : Abel Stevens, John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (1880). “Madame de Staël, a study of her life and times: the first revolution and the first empire”
“When an opportunity comes your way, it's about making sure you're prepared to be the one who can walk through the door and deliver the goods. And I've had a lot of luck on my side and I've been prepared for that luck.”
“As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.”

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