#sever

It is real, isn’t it? It’s not a joke? Petunia says you’re lying to me. Petunia says there isn’t a Hogwarts. It is real, isn’t it?” “It’s real for us,” said Snape. “Not for her. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#severus-snape #death

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic."- Joseph Stalin ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#death

I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what’s the use?’ – sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#depression #despair #perseverance #dreams

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace. ↗

— Aberjhani

#inspiration #peace #perseverance #personal-growth #psychology

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#inspirational #perseverance #striving #success #faith

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#american #appeared #cambridge #england #every

I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#attacks #attitude #been #cannot #i

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons. ↗

— Patti Smith

#around #books #children #five #four

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers. ↗

— Terry Southern

#beatles #because #cooper #covers #doing

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#care #champion #could #himself #perseverance