"But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices."

-- Mary Balogh

#Children Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Parent Quotes

“Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.”

Source : Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.137, Simon and Schuster
“For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.”
“The best system I've ever seen for intellectual distribution is the direct selling business-also known as one-to-one marketing, network marketing, referral marketing or relationship marketing.”
“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”
“I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days”
“The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.”

Source : "Samuel L Jackson: 'Now we got the movie stuff out of the way, let's talk about something serious'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.
“My good films were independent and my bad films were not.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.
“There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything”

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