"Taint no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait your hook an' keep on tryin', Keep a-goin'!"

-- Frank Lebby Stanton

#Perseverance Quotes #Hook Quotes #Use Quotes

“For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.”

Source : Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.5, VM eBooks
“I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the director would brighten up when I came in.”
“A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.”

Source : "News Stream" by Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. September 28, 2012.
“Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?”
“Everything looks nonsensical before it works.”
“I'm very bad at packing. It ends up being a circus, throwing everything in there. You never want to come up short.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“My mother's white, and she didn't know how to do my hair, so I had something that I always call white-mama hair.”

Source : "Your Race, Your Looks". Glamour's Women, Race and Beauty panel, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.
“In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.”

Source : Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.72

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