"I waited for a long time and there was nothing but the pain of wanting something I couldn't seem to find."

-- Megan Hart

#Pain Quotes #Long Quotes

“I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me what I thought were quite impossible instructions and many difficult things to do, and just when I was on the verge of starting to argue with them, I heard his voice coming to me through the air saying, "Ingrid, fake it!" It saved a lot of unpleasant situations and waste of time.”
“I randomly opened a Bible to the passages in Revelation about being lukewarm. I realized that I had been living lukewarm. I wanted the best of both worlds. I wanted to fit in. And there's nothing wrong with fitting in if it's within God's will, but I wasn't willing to sacrifice the things that I wanted. That's when my faith became real to me.”
“Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique”
“Rocks do not have dreams and that's why they are condemned to stay in the same place! To move, you must have dreams!”
“A kid under a tablecloth insists heâ€™s a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us, only pretending to be invisible.”
“The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!”
“Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.”

Source : Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.131, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

Source : Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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