"Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do."

-- Anna Neagle

#Jobs Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“Hopefully, the 27th time's the charm!”
“She talks with a broken heart - Her voice lutes brokenly like a heart lost, musically too, like in a lost grove, it's almost too much to bear sometimes like some fantastic futuristic Jerry Southern singer in a nightclub who steps up to the mike in the spotlight in Las Vegas but doesn't even have to sing, just talk, to make men sigh and women wonder I guess...”
“Of all injustice that is the greatest which goes under the name of law.”
“Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived.”
“It looks to me as though these politics mean Serbs, Croats and Muslims. But they are all people. They are all the same. They all look like people, there's no difference. They all have arms, legs and heads, they walk and talk, but now there's "something" that wants to make them different.”

Source : Zlata Filipović (1994). “Le journal de Zlata”, Viking Adult
“The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.”
“To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory.”
“Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!”

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