"Holidays - Have no pity."

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Source : Eugenio Montale (1966). “Selected Poems”, p.79, New Directions Publishing

Eugenio Montale

#Holiday Quotes #Pity Quotes

“I just hope that the democratic will of the Zimbabwean people prevails. If it does we must move quickly to help restore stability and prosperity.”

Source : "A lost generation in Zimbabwe" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. April 04, 2008.
“I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.”
“The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.”
“For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its costs.”
“It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.”

Source : "Brendan Behan, Interviews and Recollections". Book by E. H. Mikhail, Vol. 2 (p. 186), 1982.
“The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.”
“We are limited by our visual, physical senses; yet from the Scriptures we can readily conclude that heaven is indeed not distant at all. It is nearby.”
“A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.”

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