You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now. . Mary Renault
A true philosopher must never give up.
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Jostein Gaarder
Never, never, never give in!
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Winston S. Churchill
Being alive is sign of strength!
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Hiro Mashima
I am sore wounded but not slain I will lay me down and bleed a while And then rise up to fight again
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John Dryden
First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.
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Heinrich Heine
More Quotes By Mary Renault
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.
It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.
Often I wished for someone to share my mind with; but their hearts were in little things, they would have thought me a dreamer, and I had to plan alone.
Each generation has its own dream of beauty. I have lived long enough to watch it change. Just then, he was what all sculptors were reaching after, and only the great achieved.
Is he weeping?" said the one with the softest heart.
