"You can't recover from what you do not understand."

-- Lillian Hellman

#Understanding Quotes

“They say you have to be good to be lucky, but I think you have to be lucky to be good.”
“As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the side of the path. For a moment he was baffled. It seemed to have no agricultural purpose; there was no more planting or ploughing to be done. Then he realized what it was. They were digging a mass grave. He thought of shouting an order to about turn or at least to avert their eyes, but they were almost on it, and some of them had already seen their burial place. The songs died on their lips and the air was reclaimed by the birds.”
“Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes.”
“Even now, when I try and think of band names just randomly, I'm so thankful that 'fun.' is the name of the band. I never really think twice about it. It is so simple and so easy.”
“We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.”
“There was one day when I just didn't feel like I could do weight training after my cardio, so I didn't. You do have to know when to stop, or you can hurt yourself.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Aug 05, 2012
“I don't think anyone can fall in love for ratings.”

Source : "Kardashians in Exclusive 'Nightline' Interview" by Melinda Arons, Karin Weinberg, Tom Mccarthy, abcnews.go.com. May 24, 2010.

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