"To wait idly is the worst of conditions."

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Source : Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2006). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.57, OUP Oxford

Robert Falcon Scott

#Waiting Quotes #Worst Quotes

“Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body”
“Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.”
“I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In terms of America, I think any profound consideration is bound to return us to the notion of twins because, though you certainly can contend there are many Americas, our history has been binary from the beginning, with its hairline fracture down the country's center between what American has wanted to be and what America has been. That fracture is slavery, of course. To some extent it's still slavery, in that collectively we refuse to come to grips with the American fact of slavery.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We know what willpower is, but by some misguided conception, many of us believe we have to be a certain type of person, strong, determined, extroverted, to be able to be willful, to exercise willpower. Not so. We all have it and just don't know how to use it.”
“For me, now, working and children is it. Theres nothing more to life.”

Source : "Aidan Gillen: 'I'm less bothered about playing disgusting or flawed people'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2009.
“I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.”
“I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.”

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