"Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing."

-- Paul Theroux

#Limits Quotes #Capacity Quotes #Great Things Quotes

“Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.”
“I don't even think you should tell the audience you're improvising. It's like an apology in case it's bad : 'we're just making it up' If the improv isn't better than the rehearsed stuff, then you should just rehearse it.”
“Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
“But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.”
“The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge.”
“Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.”

Source : "The Life of William Ewart Gladstone". Book by John Morley, 1901.
“I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it's a great workout.”
“Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.”

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