"Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting."

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Source : Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.119, Egmont UK

Elizabeth Wein

#Long Quotes #Worry Quotes #World Quotes

“I'm excited about the aging process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.”
“Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
“The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why I don't want to make my concerto "virtuosic" in the sense of a technical show-off. I want a beautiful sound and a melodic and lyrical line. I am more interested in the way someone can play musically.”
“The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.”

Source : "EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.
“Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.”
“Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith.”

Source : "Scoop : An Historical Adventure" by James H. Walters, (p. 32), 2006.
“No amount of makeup can mask an ugly heart.”
“I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.”

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