"Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles."

-- Kate Douglas Wiggin

#Success Quotes #Two Quotes #World Quotes

“Futurists are already predicting the day mankind builds its replacement, Artificial Intelligence. Daniel Wilson shows what might happen when that computer realizes its creators are no longer needed. Lean prose, great characters, and almost unbearable tension ensure that Robopocalypse is going to be a blockbuster. Once started I defy anyone to put it down.”
“I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.”
“The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.”

Source : Robert S. McNamara (1992). “The Changing Nature of Global Security and Its Impact on South Asia”
“Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him.”
“The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.”

Source : 'Daisy' (1913)
“It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.”
“People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.”

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