"No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances."

-- Frank Arthur Swinnerton

#Men Quotes #May Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.”
“Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.”
“I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.”
“I haven't tucked a sock in my pants for three years.”
“There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.”

Source : "The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm".
“Because of GLHR's crusades... we're beginning to learn the awful truth about workers around the world who are slaving away their lives in sweatshops, who are denied the right to join or form a union in order to fight back and provide a better life for their families.”
“When I started racing my father told me, 'Cristiano, nobody has three balls but some people have two very good ones.'”
“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the worldâ€™s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the worldâ€™s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.268, Pan Macmillan

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