"If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses."

-- Hanif Kureishi

#Want Quotes #Excuse Quotes #Enough Quotes

“"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as "in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us."”
“There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?”
“It's all about how I feel about things. I never expect much, I always felt like I obey my heart.”
“A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.”
“I still believe in rock and roll, it pays my bills.”
“Style for me is a casual way of putting something on. It's not thought out but needs to suit your way of life. Now I like wearing the same sweater over and over again, then taking it off when it's smelly.”

Source : "Charlotte Gainsbourg Is Not a Style Icon" by Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni, www.wsj.com. February 23, 2012.
“I will blow your face clean off your face!”
“An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.”

Source : Andrew Taylor Still, George Van O'Linda Webster (1935). “Sage Sayings of Still: Selected from the Writings of Dr. A.T. Still; with a Historical Sketch of Osteopathy and an Appreciation of Dr. Still”

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