quotes about Misconstrued

“If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.”

“A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles.”

Source : Anosh Irani (2013). “The Cripple And His Talismans”, p.26, HarperCollins Publishers India

“I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.”

“Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen ...”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.161, NYU Press

“Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.”

“The police [in South Africa] would check in on you randomly. And they would come into the house, and they would look through that registry and look at all the names of all the people who were registered to be living in the house. And they would, you know, cross-reference that with the actual inhabitants of the dwelling.I was never on that piece of paper. I was always hidden. My grandmother would hide me somewhere if the police did show up. And it was a constant game of hide and seek.”

“We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it.”

“Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.”

Source : Frank Delaney (2011). “The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland”, p.48, Random House

“What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.”

“Stan Hack has as many friends in baseball as Leo Durocher has enemies”