"It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next."

-- Brenda Ueland

#Letting Go Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Conceited Quotes

“It's no good protecting people or even looking after them past a certain point. One can't grasp more than a piece of anyone. Most of the rest can only be protected by themselves and the remainder by hired specialists and doctors and dentists and professional protectors.”
“I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes.”
“Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.”
“The conference also has a moral duty to examine the corruption of science that can be caused by massive amounts of money. The United States has disbursed tens of billions of dollars to climate scientists who would not have received those funds had their research shown climate change to be beneficial or even modest in its effects. Are these scientists being tempted by money? And are the very, very few climate scientists whose research is supported by industry somehow less virtuous?”
“When I step into the batters box and hear my team say my name and they all cheer for me i feel as if i need to hit the ball for them! Softball is life and nothing comes before it”
“I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.”

Source : Arnold Edwin Needham, Sarah Fielding (1943). “The Life and Works of Sarah Fielding”
“I don't want to be in everyone's face. I'm a big music fan, and I get really pissed off when it gets like that and I don't want people to get like that with me.”
“I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.”

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