"If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets."

-- Bernard Williams

#Disappointment Quotes #Regret Quotes #Failure Quotes

“Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.”
“I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.”
“One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.”
“I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted to genuine talents.”

Source : "Book World Live: Kid's Books". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2005.
“James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant social critic, he foreshadowed the destructive trends happening now in the whole Western world and beyond, while always maintaining a sense of humanistic hope and dignity. He explored palpable, yet unspoken, intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies and the inevitable, if unnameable, tensions with personal identity, assumptions, uncertainties, yearning, and questing.”
“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.”

Source : Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.36, Discovery House
“Something I've always known about the screen is that if it's anything in the world, it's literal. It's so literal that there's a whole lot you can't do because you're stuck with the literalness of the screen. The stage is not literal.”
“And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion -- well, that would be zero.”

Source : "Fox Host: Christians Have Killed ‘Zero’ People In The Name Of Religion" by Catherine Thompson, talkingpointsmemo.com. February 9, 2015.

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