"Summer makes a silence after spring."

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Vita Sackville-West

#Summer Quotes #Spring Quotes #Silence Quotes

“This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.”
“Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.”
“For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.”

Source : John Barrasso's remarks on coverage at White House health summit in Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. February 25, 2010.
“My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.”

Source : "Bono Bites Back". Interview with Adam Block, www.motherjones.com. May 1, 1989.
“I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.”
“Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.”
“The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.”
“I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.”

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