"Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones."

-- Brian Herbert

#Important Quotes #Tests Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman (David Cameron) may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist.”

Source : Gordon Brown during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. November 15, 2006.
“Tell Ray to put the eyeliner, the lipstick and the high heels away. I'm not saying he's a cross-dresser, that's just what I heard.”

Source : "Buchanan, Sharpe's War Of Words". www.cbsnews.com. January 28, 1999.
“Life would be so much easier if fictional boys were real.”
“Books were my pass to personal freedom.”
“Sit with those who constantly repent, for they have the softest hearts.”
“Best marks go to cheaters and memorizers. Marks depend on memorizing and not on real knowledge. When you cram into your head for a test you may get a high mark but forget it the next day. That's not an education. I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen”

Source : Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.381, Open Road Media
“Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's alive. Realize everything has its own discrete existence outside your story. By doing this, you open to gifts and lessons that the world has to give you.”
“At EMILY's List, we're in the business of expanding the political power of women.”

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