"The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it."

--

Christian Nestell Bovee

#Courtesy Quotes

“Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.”
“Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something which absorbs him - which may be regarded by others as being useless - yet it is his dream, it is his lodestar, it is his master. That, whatever it is, seized upon me, made me its servant, slave - induced me to set aside the other ambitions a trail of glory in the heavens, which I followed, followed with a full heart. ...When once I am convinced, I never let go...”
“Now see, a lot of critics are saying Arnold can't get elected because he's just an ambitious guy with a famous name, who doesn't know anything about running the government. Didn't hurt George Bush.”
“With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer.”
“Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Begin where you are and what you are.”

Source : "Acres of Diamonds". Book by Russell H. Conwell, p. 59, 1915.
“Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard, cold, postwar flawlessness which I myself wanted to attain-but in an entirely different style, medium...”

Source : George Antheil (1945). “Bad boy of music”
“Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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