"... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools."

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Source : Fanny Kemble, Fanny Kemble Wister (1972). “Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters”

Fanny Kemble

#Character Quotes #Fool Quotes #Determined Quotes

“Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.”
“Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?”

Source : "The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China". Book by Keith Laidler, p. 221, January 21, 2005.
“Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written countless times over the decade. Each iteration has proved to be ephemeral, as the moment has continually shown itself to have a deeper bench than we imagine.”
“We also want to make sure Penn State becomes a national leader in this whole area of child abuse prevention and treatment.”
“The living Lord leads His living church.”
“Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.”
“But it is hard, whatever you have endured, to give up on love. Hard to stop thinking of it as a home you might one day find again. More than hard”
“By the time youâ€™ve had a relationship with a horse for a while, there are characteristics in the way the horse behaves with you and around you and responds to you that are directly (related) to some of your traits as a human beingâ€¦whether itâ€™s insecurity or aggression or fear or hate.”

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