"We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there."

-- Rupert Murdoch

#Country Quotes #Animal Quotes #America Quotes

“Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.”

Source : Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”
“I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.”
“In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some sacred entity to which the bourgeois should pay homage. This all sounds absurd. But for Russians it is completely normal.”
“Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.”
“Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.”
“My children are the most important thing in my life.”
“Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.”
“Maybe da Vinci didn’t serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter.”

Source : Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.192, Hawthorne Books

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