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If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#been #cave #else #enough #everything

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.' ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#come #dear #ethic #first #fuss

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#asked #astaire #cope #dance #face

It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#gesture #least #mean #rather #rude

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#biggest #housewife #i #interest #job

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#further #get #innovation #little #mind

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#hit #levels #life #make #passes

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. ↗

— Heraclitus

#expect the unexpected #find #reached #search #trail

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. ↗

— Heraclitus

#boredom #control #controlled #only #over

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just. ↗

— Heraclitus

#everything #god #good #however #humans