"The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact - and the barn in ruins, ended the week with a great raft of ethics proposals for cabinet, leadership candidates, backbenchers and lobbyists. I think it is more than fair to ask: Why wait for the middle of his third term to institute what the public would have welcomed at the beginning of his first?"

-- Rex Murphy

#Horse Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Go back and take a look at what some black writers were saying in the 1820s, the 1830s. They make mention of how some white people would tell their children, if you don't behave, we're going to put you in the n - - seat. If you don't behave, we are going to make you sit with the n - - s. That's why we know that, by then, the word had become a slur.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.”

Source : Robert Wright (1994). “The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life”, Pantheon
“A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.”
“The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.”

Source : Speech in New York City, August 28, 1952.
“Gossip is easy, politics is hard.”
“I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.”
“When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it.”

Source : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.287, Penguin
“My style is constantly changing.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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