"Nice is OK when it's among other things but never when it stands alone"

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Cecelia Ahern

#Nice Quotes #Stand Alone Quotes

“I love to be sore and when I feel sore I train even harder.”
“When you have arrived at your country house and have saluted your household, you should make the rounds of the farm the same day, if possible; if not, then certainly the next day. When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone, you should summon your overseer the next day, and should call for a report of what work has been done in good season and why it has not been possible to complete the rest, and what wine and corn and other crops have been gathered.”
“I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.”
“Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesnâ€™t look at you right, somebody says something.Â Everybody is sensitive. Â If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, Iâ€™d still be in Savannah.”
“There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.”
“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.”
“Horsemanship is the one art for which it seems one needs only practice. However, practice without true principles is nothing other than routine, the fruit of which is a strained and unsure execution, a false diamond which dazzles semi-connoisseurs often more impressed by the accomplishments of the horse than the merit of the horseman.”
“All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.”

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