"I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in a woman that she doesn't actually have, who puts her in a class apart with every one else in second place, and who stays attached to her even while he's abusing her."

-- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

#Class Quotes #Quality Quotes #Charm Quotes

“I didn't get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I'm planning to work hard at it.”
“Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”
“I learned that when something just has to be said to move the discussion along, or broaden it or deepen it, if I can just keep my mouth shut for five minutes a student will say it. So for me a lot of teaching is about keeping my mouth shut.”
“Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.”

Source : Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.43, Penguin
“you pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer, it also made me adept at transforming run-of-the-mill molehills into towering mountain ranges.”

Source : Jean Little (1990). “Stars Come Out Within”, Markham, Ont. : Viking
“You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose.”
“The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.”

Source : "Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock".

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