"The only real sadness, the only real failure, the onlyÂ great tragedyÂ inÂ life, is not to become a saint."

-- Leon Bloy

#Real Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.”
“I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.”

Source : Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.10, Macmillan
“The man possessed of a dollar, feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better, than the man who is penniless; so on through all the gradations of earthly possessions - the estimate of our own moral and political importance swelling always in a ratio exactly proportionate to the growth of our purse.”
“Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.”

Source : Jodie Foster's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 29, 1989.
“Listen! Say less rather than more. If you want to be smart, play stupid!”
“When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.”
“I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We're a stupid industry led by stupid people,”

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