"All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand"

-- Antonio Machado

#Long Quotes #Decision Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Roxane: His face is like yours, burning with spirit and imagination. He is proud and noble and young and fearless and beautiful- Cyrano:(losing all his colour.) Beautiful! Roxane: Yes. What's wrong? Cyrano: With me? Nothing. It's only... only... (Displaying his bandaged hand, with a little smile.) This fatal wound.”
“The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.”
“It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States,”
“Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.58
“I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.”
“Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.”
“Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.”
“The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.”

Source : Sporting News, May 12, 1970.

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