"Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without."

-- Nikolai Gogol

#Ambition Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Men Quotes

“Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.”
“You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there”
“As the years have gone on and you start to know your character better than some of the writers and directors do, you get a little bit more of a world in which you can say, "I think it would be really great, if this year, her fate wasn't determined by the boys," or that kind of thing. You have to pick your battles and make sure that you've earned the right to talk about that.”
“I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.”
“When you get that tired, it becomes really challenging to keep bringing your best foot forward.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.”

Source : "Fictional character: Chief Inspector Morse". "Inspector Morse/ The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn", www.imdb.com. 1987.
“It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.”
“I think people just like rooting. If they like you, they're going to want to root for you and you're one of theirs. And if they don't like you? It doesn't matter.”

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