"The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile."

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Source : Robert K. Massie (2011). “Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman”, p.449, Random House

Robert K. Massie

#Easy Quotes #Reconcile Quotes

“Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning.”
“Rather than go from one life to another, I think I live a lot of lives at the same time. I've done that ever since I was a child. It seemed that I was inhabited by some B movie.”
“If you have to remind yourself to concentrate during competition, you've got no chance to concentrate.”
“Liberty is dangerous.”
“I don't want anyone to get seriously hurt. But I do watch awards shows to critique the clothes while I sit around eating chips in my sweat pants and in hopes of seeing some hilarious accidental nudity.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.”
“Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.”
“My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, Give and Take, was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.”

Source : "PBS Newshour’s Poetry Series: Where Poetry Lives" by Jonterri Gadson, therumpus.net. September 13, 2013.

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