"If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work."

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Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.170, Open Road Media

Beryl Markham

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“People don't really care about lyrics anymore. It's kinda really sad, like they'll listen to something musically and has a really cool beat down or something, that's great, that's good enough; but the message is the most important thing.”
“Iâ€™m aware of the- the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differently from us. I can sort of see us, us Americans with their eyes. And not all that I see is- is attractive. I see an insular people who are- are insensitive to foreign sensibilities, who are lazy, obese, complacent and increasingly perplexed as to why we are losing our place in the world to people who are more dynamic than us and more disciplined”
“The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.”
“Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“On the set I never know what day of the week it is.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“God never does anything according to what you want. It's never your will. It's His will.”

Source : "A conversation with lead singer of The Almost and former Underoath drummer Aaron Gillespie". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.
“I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment.”
“The notion, the invention of a country, is fairly new in the history of mankind. We tend to forget that. We want to protect our country. The country is something that's fairly new. It's 250 years old, maybe 300 years old, so it's bound to change and evolve also. Migration is part of that.”

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