"Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius"

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Conn Iggulden

#Men Quotes #Silent Quotes #Despise Quotes

“Keep your eye on the end of the course. Victory is secured already. Do not let the hurdles cause thee consternation. Stay in the running. Verily, I am at thy side. According to each day shall thy strength be; and the race is not to the swift, but the obedient shall receive the prize.”

Source : Frances J. Roberts (1973). “Come Away My Beloved”
“And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'”
“We are searching for the same thing,â€ Stripey said. â€œHow do you know?â€ Janco asked. â€œI read his mind.â€ The Sitian pointed to Ari. â€œYours was tooâ€¦chaotic. Too many useless thoughts to wade through.â€ A compliment or an insult? Janco guessed compliment and preened.”
“I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.”
“Now smile a real smile for me so I know you`re not suffering inside.”
“It was pretty daunting. Normally, I never go to a gym, but before we started shooting, I thought I'd better. I reckoned I was in really good shape, and then I looked around and I was half the size of everyone else. A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.”
“When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real.”
“Grief is not a problem to be fixed but a process to be lived out.”

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