"Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read."

-- Anya Seton

#Girl Quotes #Book Quotes #Devil Quotes

“Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.”
“If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble, he will not receive a reward for his labor. Recompense is given, not for labor, but for humility.”
“I would never do anything just for spite.”
“One comes to a decision based on what one wants, not based on what one doesn't want. Got it?”

Source : "Fictional character: Jan". "Beautiful Girls", 1996.
“You have to wake up and say, 'I have a fire in me to be better than I am right now.' That's your base.”
“When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it...”
“Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.”

Source : Anthony Giddens (1991). “Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.184, Stanford University Press
“O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.”

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