"Trouble is a thing that will come without our call, but true joy will not spring up without ourselves."

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Source : Simon Patrick (1858). “The works of Symon Patrick: including his autobiography”, p.633

Simon Patrick

#Spring Quotes #Joy Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.”
“Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.”
“I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.”
“Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or of any law reform, is reckoned in decades usually; in years, at least. And, after all, as the Court itself asserted in overruling the minimum-wage cases, it may not be the Constitution that was at fault.”
“I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.”
“The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.”
“It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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