"If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity."

-- John Dalton

#May Quotes #Surround Quotes

“There is nothing that you cannot do.”
“I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.”

Source : Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.174, Delphi Classics
“Very early on in this process though I studied acting in high school and college, soon after graduation, I walked away from the craft because I wanted to know that this is what I was supposed to do with my life.”
“Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.”

Source : Source: blog.yupnet.org
“Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in every weeknight in the hope that he might get free and call me. It felt like I had a disease I didn't want to get rid of. I suppose that's a definition of obsession, yes.”

Source : Sarah Dunant (2001). “Mapping the Edge: A Novel”, p.163, Random House
“I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.”
“Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.”
“I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible for millions of deaths from starvation, famine, and disease in the decades ahead.”

Source : "A climate of censorship" by Brendan O'Neill, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2006.

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