"These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed."

-- Abigail Adams

#Character Quotes #Wish Quotes #Endurance Quotes

“I've enjoyed much success. The IRS is always at my door, constantly.”
“To every trend there is a counter-trend. There are a number of pendulums operating and each creates new business opportunities.”

Source : "Futurewise". Book by David Perkins, 1998.
“There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.”
“You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.”
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

Source : June Jordan, “Poem For South African Women”
“When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown.”

Source : Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.175, Canongate Books
“Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.”
“I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.”

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