"The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character."

-- Lucy Larcom

#Character Quotes #Curse Quotes #Covetousness Quotes

“My motto is: write about anything you bloody well like; just make sure you do it effectively. We've all had all the emotions, the rest is research and that leap which some can do and others cannot - it's not really something you can learn, otherwise all academics of literature would be wonderful fiction writers.”
“It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers as proud moments in their timelines, encounters that were recorded and created music of lasting impression. In the jazz tradition, there are a few, but none that has been revered for as long as Jazz at Massey Hall.”
“Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.”

Source : "I just wanted to be the best in the world" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2001.
“Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.”
“Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.”
“Im off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.”
“I am two of the most powerful words; for what you put after them shapes your reality.”
“The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 615-17, when Comte de Provence (1783). Impromter sur nos decouverte aerostatiques. Year of the aeronautical experiments of the brothers Montgolfier, Pilatre de Rozier, and Marquis d'Arlandes, 1922.

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