"It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms."

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John W. Gardner

#Reform Quotes #Irony Quotes #Consequence Quotes

“My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.”
“Yes ...I am a demon. There's no way I could understand my prey, a human's sense of taste. What I understand is...only the taste of a human's soul.”
“I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.”
“It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.60, Faber & Faber
“So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' . . . And little do they know that that's why I look so insane . . . I'm torturing myself with thoughts of, 'How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?'”
“With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.”
“I don't see myself as a very important person. But I was the second woman to write a novel in Iran, and I have written most of the novels about Iranian women. In this way, maybe I have a good place in Iranian literature.”

Source : Source: www.parsarts.com
“When you put your hands and mind and heart into the knowing of a thing ... there is no room in you for fear.”

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