"Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt."

-- Jean Racine

#Fall Quotes #Guilt Quotes #Vices Quotes

“I am not the world's most confident person.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.”
“One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.”
“I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.”
“I don't want to make the same mistakes of being swept along with things, taking on jobs that I'm not passionate about, that I don't really believe in but that everyone says I should do.”

Source : "Kelly Brook" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.
“Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.”
“Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity , then of our wisdom , ultimately of our coercion.”

Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.221, New York Review of Books
“If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings”

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