"Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others ..."

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Marguerite Yourcenar

#Special Quotes #Hours Quotes #Duty Quotes

“It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.”

Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
“I'm in love with boxing. It fell into my lap and I have been in love with it ever since.”
“We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.”
“When a man is a Traveler, the world is his house & the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, & all the people are his family”
“When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.”
“My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was a fire coming from a certain direction and wind was coming from another, what was the best thing to do? The right answer was, "Run like hell and pray for rain," but few students ever got it. So allow yourself the freedom of knowing there are times to bail out, quit, run, leave the struggle, and have more time for joy.”
“What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.”

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