"Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you."

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Henry Ward Beecher

#Sweet Quotes #Victory Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.”

Source : Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”
“Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy.”

Source : Source: www.theskanner.com
“I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.”
“No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.”
“There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.”
“It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.”
“Today's children will become tomorrow's civilization.”
“It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.”

Source : "I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language" by John Humphrys, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 24, 2007.

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