"I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that."

-- Anna Wintour

#Successful Quotes #Careers Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it”
“Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the best lives is very badâ€”and considerably worse than most people recognize it to be. Although it is obviously too late to prevent our own existence, it is not too late to prevent the existence of future possible people.”

Source : David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.7, Oxford University Press
“Some experiences simply do not translate. you have to go to know.”
“The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit's help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reformable.”
“The on and off thing is kind of annoying, isn't it? First with Cole, now with Gavin. "Maybe you need a tune up." I rolled my eyes. "I'll just pop into the supernatural ability repair shop sometime tomorrow." He grinned, his fingers tracing the line of my jaw.”
“Only miracle is plain; it is in the ordinary that groans with the weight of glory.”
“Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.”

Source : "My week" by Christopher Hampton, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.
“Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings”

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