"Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor."

-- Paul Sarbanes

#Important Quotes #Attention Quotes #Done Quotes

“The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that the customer would tolerate, churn it out as fast as possible, and charge as much as they could get away with. If it were possible to do so, the company would sell what all businesses of its kind dream about selling, creating that which all of our efforts were tacitly supposed to achieve: the ultimate product -- Nothing. And for this product they would command the ultimate price -- Everything.”
“I've become more confident in who I am as an artist and as a person. I know what I want and am not afraid to voice it in the studio. Or in life. Take it or leave it!”
“Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.”

Source : Jack Campbell (2012). “Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Invincible”, p.140, Penguin
“When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.”

Source : 27 "Parliamentary History", 680; Annual Register, 1789.
“Some women are convinced that they are the same size they were 20 years ago. They also wear clothes that are too big in an effort to hide their body. Both cases are unflattering and work against your body. Some women are in denial about changing.”
“Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.”
“In order to build our nation, we must all exceed our own expectations.”
“The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.”

Source : Ernest Bramah (2016). “The Complete Works of Ernest Bramah (Including Max Carrados Mysteries & Kai Lung Fantasy Series): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Bravo of London, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, The Secret of Dunstan's Tower, The Missing Witness Sensationäó_”, p.1330, e-artnow

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