"If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you still have work to do."

-- Richard Askey

#Nice Quotes #Reason Quotes #Fortune Quotes

“The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.”

Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883). “Notes of Thought”
“I have moments of weakness, but mostly I brush the criticism off... Who cares if I'm not a size zero? I don't want to be. I love my body; I'm healthy, I work out.”
“Legal gun ownership always prevails over the emotionalism of the gun control movement.”
“One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.”
“If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.”
“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”

Source : Joan Didion (2011). “A Book of Common Prayer”, p.256, Vintage
“My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest eventually taught me incredibly valuable lessons about the art of taking time-outs. To this day, Bonnie is astutely aware of times when her energy dips too low and resolutely honors her need to rest. To boost her energy, she's been known to sit quietly with a cup of tea, adjourn a workshop we were co-facilitating to take a five-minute breather, or slip out of her own wedding reception to be restored by a few minutes of solitude in the sun.”
“The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.”

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