"We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. -Edward"

-- Laurell K. Hamilton

#Guy Quotes #Good Guy Quotes

“I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.”

Source : "David Cameron speech: UK and the EU". www.bbc.com. January 23, 2013.
“Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of their early modern and modern history, they have had more contact with more parts of the world than almost any other nation - it is just that this contact has regularly taken the form of aggressive military and commercial enterprise.”

Source : Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.8, Yale University Press
“I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.”

Source : Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.378, Vintage
“Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing the work. Then you drop off - you know, 'post-coital man is sad,' as the old saying goes.”
“Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.”

Source : Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959). “A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ”
“I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.”
“The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography...The reason is that photography is only a tool, a vehicle, for expressing or transmitting a passion in something else. It is not the end result.”

Source : "On Being a Photographer". Book by Bill Jay and David Hurn, 1997.
“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to what he says. . . . When he finishes talking, ask him about any points that you do not understand.”

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