"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."

-- Helen Keller

#Inspirational Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Patience Quotes

“The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means.”

Source : "Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says". www.nytimes.com. April 21, 2009.
“Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.”

Source : Karin Slaughter (2014). “The Will Trent Series 7-Book Bundle: Triptych, Fractured, Undone, Broken, Fallen, Criminal, Unseen”, p.395, Bantam
“This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ... Lee the biographer pursues her subject down every winding corridor, into every hidden passage and dark corner ... Her critical exploration of Edith Whartons work is dazzlingly assured ... A feat of exhaustive research, and finely tuned to Whartons creative achievement at the same time ... [Wharton] could scarcely have failed to be impressed by ... its artistic sympathy, its sonorous depths, and its soaring conception.”
“What happens to conservatives when they get near the White House? How come they only seem to be talking the good talk at, say, the Senate level, when they don't have to run the show?”
“If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.”

Source : "Sir James Goldsmith, Financier, Dies at 64" by Youssed M. Ibrahim, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 1997.
“An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.”
“Finding an excuse not to buy a brand can be just as enjoyable as finding an excuse to buy one. That, too, is human nature.”
“Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly...”

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