"The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success."

-- Alvin Toffler

#Yesterday Quotes #Survival Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, any number of things, all the way to marketing - like they could market it poorly and nobody finds it and down it goes.”
“I often went entire days without speaking - unable to get a word in over my inner taskmaster, who never shut up: â€œYou fat, disgusting slob, you'll never be thin enough, good enough, smart enough, tough or talented enough.”
“They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.”
“In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.72, Sarah Orne Jewett
“The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.”

Source : Howard Storm (2005). “My Descent Into Death: A Second Chance at Life”, p.51, Harmony
“Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.”

Source : "Obama's Complacency About Radical Islam" by Victor Davis Hanson, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 1, 2013.
“If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.”
“Most people think witches are a coven of lesbians dancing naked in the forest celebrating the ***** stolen from imprisoned hypnotized males, which they then use to inseminate one another using turkey basters in order to create a legion of demon babies. Well, that's only part of it. We are also active in community outreach programs.”

Source : "Wigfield". Book by Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, and Stephen Colbert, 2003.

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