"I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?"

-- Anne Frank

#Character Quotes #Circles Quotes #Long Quotes

“James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.”
“Self-worth comes from who we are in Christ, not what we accomplish in this world.”

Source : Pete Wilson (2012). “Empty Promises: The Truth About You, Your Desires, and the Lies You're Believing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc
“That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit.”

Source : Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.242, Harvard University Press
“Time-Use it or lose it. Time, like a snowflake, disappears while we're trying to decide what to do with it. The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.”
“Or perhaps you notice a congregation of ladybugs on a rose stalk. Don't invoke the old nursery saying and ask them to fly away home. Their house is not on fire. Your roses are, with aphids, which the ladybugs are feeding on - and you can bless yourself that they have come to your rescue.”

Source : Eleanor Perenyi (2010). “Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden”, p.173, Modern Library
“To know Pritkin was to want to kill him, but so far I'd resisted temptation.”
“The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.”
“I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.”

Source : Quoted in the Observer, 30 Dec1973.

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