"Richard, might I ask you something? We've talked tonight of what you must do, of what you can do, of what you ought to do.But we've said nothing of what you want to do.Richard, do you want to be King?" At first, she thought he wasn't going to answer her. But as she studied his face, she saw he was turning her question over in his mind, seeking to answer it as honestly as he could. "Yes," he said at last. "Yes...I do."

-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Kings Quotes #Mind Quotes #Tonight Quotes

“Brands must make use of the inclination of consumers to be persuaded by friends.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Our most basic institution of family desperately needs help and support from the extended family and the public institutions that surround us. Brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents and cousins can make a powerful difference in the lives of children. Remember that the expression of love and encouragement from an extended family member will often provide the right influence and help a child at a critical time.”
“Environmental history... refer[s] to the past contact of man with his total habitat. . . . The environmental historian like the ecologist [s]hould think in terms of wholes, of communities, of interrelationships, and of balances.”
“The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.”

Source : "Roy Lichtenstein: from heresy to visionary" by Sarah Churchwell, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2013.
“Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we diagnose each case... we invariably find that the cause of death has been either War or Class or some combination of the two.”

Source : Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”
“The scene that scares you the most, that you don't want to write because it's the most difficult to write-that's the one you have to write. So I think when people have writer's block, it's because what they have to write scares them. And that's usually the heart of the book.”
“One thing that's certain: around the corner from every ugly thing, there's something really beautiful. If we stop at every bitter interaction; we'll never reach our destination.”
“The gratitude you receive from others is a reflection of your genius.”

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