"But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism."

-- Fiona Apple

#Dad Quotes #Giving Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“When you fall, never get up without gaining anything. Always find something on the way up. If there are only rocks, grasp one to throw in order to defend yourself.”
“The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.”
“Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.”

Source : Beverly Cleary (1998). “The Mouse and the motorcycle”
“Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.”
“In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.”
“If olive oil comes from olives, then where does baby oil come from?”
“That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed a principle in every man, to inform him of his duty, and to enable him to do it; and that those that live up to this principle are the people of God, and those that live in disobedience to it, are not God's people, whatever name they may bear, or profession they may make of religion. This is their ancient, first, and standing testimony: with this they began, and this they bore, and do bear to the world.”
“If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.”

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