“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
[Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]”
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[Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]”
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“Summer has no day,' she said. 'We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...it has no day.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.”
― The Secret to Success
― The Secret to Success
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses—”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
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