"Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could."

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Louis Pasteur

#Goal Quotes #Effort Quotes #Done Quotes

“Ian MacKaye was in London while I was living there. We both decided that even though we had very different lifestyles, we had the same mentality - politically, and in a lot of other different ways. His statement was, "We're going to the same place, except you're taking a taxi, and I'm driving my own car." That's me and Ian MacKaye's relationship. I love him, he's great.”
“I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.”
“Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.”

Source : Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.300, Delphi Classics
“Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.”
“Love is eternal. If it ends, it wasn't love.”

Source : "Memórias" by Nelson Rodrigues, Edições Correio de Manhã, (p. 62), 1967.
“The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.”
“We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.”
“Only fools mistake politicians for messiahs.”

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