"Accuracy first,â€ I used to tell the writers. â€œWe must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately!"

-- Sefton Delmer

#Lying Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Used Quotes

“Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.”

Source : David Baldacci (2009). “Absolute Power”, p.352, Pan Macmillan
“Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?”
“Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.]”
“I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.”

Source : Presentation at World Federation of Right to Die Societies, September 24, 1984.
“Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.”
“I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?”

Source : Kij Johnson (2001). “The Fox Woman”, p.57, Macmillan
“A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dan Rather from Jul 21, 2014
“It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.”

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