"In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires."

-- Livy

#Adversity Quotes #Desire Quotes #Assuming Quotes

“Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me.”
“No, I'm too busy trying to deflect your Power of Stupidity. But I don't think I'm strong enough.”
“The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.”
“The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.”

Source : Emile Gaboriau (1908). “File number 113: and The little old man of Batignolles”
“The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.”
“Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering, ... According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that active-duty soldiers are now spending one of every two years abroad, leaving little of the Army left in any appropriate condition to respond to crises that may emerge elsewhere in the world. In an era in which we confront a globally networked enemy, and at a time when nuclear weapons proliferation is an urgent threat, continuing on our present course is irresponsible at best.”

Source : "The President’s Policies Are Breaking the U.S. Army" by Russ Feingold, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2005.
“In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.”

Source : Doctoral thesis, 1867.

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