"Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity."

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Source : Isobelle Carmody (2011). “The Keeping Place: Obernewtyn Chronicles: Book Four”, p.701, A&C Black

Isobelle Carmody

#Success Quotes #Insanity Quotes #Demand Quotes

“Now thatâ€™s true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me.”
“Somethingâ€™s died in me,â€ she goes. â€œIt took a long time for it to do it, but itâ€™s dead. Youâ€™ve killed something, just like youâ€™d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.”
“We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.”

Source : Marcos (subcomandante.), Frank Bardacke, Leslie López, John Ross (1995). “Shadows of Tender Fury”
“I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and I have seen too many lies go unquestioned, and too many questions go unasked. There is a time when even reasonable men must begin to take unreasonable actions. To do anything else is to be less than human.”
“Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.”
“I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.”
“On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.”
“The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.”

Source : William Kent Krueger (2014). “Ordinary Grace: A Novel”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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