"Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?"

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Source : George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.17, Booklassic

George du Maurier

#Beer Quotes #Odds Quotes #Long Quotes

“I think that when you're 5'4" and 150 pounds and you love to chat and you have a blog about shopping, trying to maintain a tiny bit of mystery where you possibly can is not a bad thing.”
“The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires no vaccinators, distributes no vaccine. It is a small Geneva bureaucracy run by several hundred international delegates whose annual votes tell the organization what to do but not how to do it.â€¦The only substantial resource that WHO has cultivated is information and expertise.”
“Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.”
“It's good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Oct 26, 2016
“I always think of it like this: Rather than be the sun to someone and light up everything around them, I want to be the moon and light the way just a little in front of them when they are lost or uncertain in the darkness, and always be there with them when they look up. Thatâ€™s my way of living.”
“As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.”
“The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.”
“The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it.”

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