"I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival."

-- David Attenborough

#Australia Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Three Quotes

“Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.”

Source : Lynne Reid Banks (1995). “The Secret of the Indian”
“If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.”

Source : Charles George Gordon (1888). “Letters of General C.G. Gordon to His Sister, M.A. Gordon”, London ; New York : Macmillan
“For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast. She bobbed and shambled like an ape doing a trick, and her face was the silly, bewildered face of a joker's victim. And yet she could make no move that was not beautiful. Her trapped terror was more lovely than any joy that Molly had ever seen, and that was the most terrible thing about it.”
“If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.”
“The shortest follies are the best.”
“I am always safe, no matter which doorway I pass through.”
“Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.”
“Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.”

Source : Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Maeterlinck and I”

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