"My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic."

-- Gemma Chan

#People Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Parent Quotes

“Floyd Sklootâ€™s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one manâ€™s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months of extreme vertigo and decades of neurological turbulence would be filled with so much joy and optimism? This gentle, wise, and perceptive memoir never fails to surprise.”
“As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God He answered my prayers,' whichever the case may be.”
“In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.”
“The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.”
“If a man can beat you, walk him.”
“Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.”
“The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It also affords a simple and instructive example or the processes by which natural science generally is developed.”
“I feel that women and men should free themselves up. It took me a while to get over my dysphoria about shopping in the men's section, trying on men's clothes, but when I was thinking about my life and the kind of woman I wanted to be, it was never just this by-the-book feminine thing.”

Source : Source: wwd.com

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