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“The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose.”
Source : Nathalia Crane (1928). “Venus Invisible: And Other Poems”
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“So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can't be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there no limits,”
Source : Michael Phelps (2012). “No Limits: The Will to Succeed”, p.1991, Simon and Schuster
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“I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.”
Source : Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.173, Macmillan
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“Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.”
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“I love bad comedy more than I love good comedy, so I love open mics. Or I used to. But the thing that delights me more than anything else in an open-mic performer is when the comic has one joke that requires some kind of prop. But only one. The prop is always produced very awkwardly, and it never, ever pays off. The resulting embarrassment is savory and delicious.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.”
Source : Charles Churchill (1774). “The Rosciad. The apology. The prophecy of famine, a Scots pastoral. An epistle to William Hogarth. The ghost. book 1-2”, p.57
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“We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?”
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“We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.”
