"I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses."

-- Maeve Binchy

#Morning Quotes #Pain Quotes #People Quotes

“The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not of a great, but of a decaying society. Historians know that both phenomena were especially marked in the declining eras of the Roman Empire in the West and of its successor state, the Eastern or Byzantine Empire.”
“Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. Im pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.”
“In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.”
“More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.”
“If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was applying to the art school, but there was a checklist that said I had to do either production design or stage management or acting. I thought, "I don't want to be an actor, but I know production and stage management take acting classes" - this is literally my internal monologue. I was like, "Designers don't have to take acting classes. Cool. I'll check that box".”

Source : "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.
“It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the human heart.”
“It does not take many words to tell the truth”

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