"I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican."

-- Ray Farabee

#Political Quotes #Quitting Quotes #Republican Quotes

“My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.”
“In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything.”
“Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.”

Source : Ezra Pound, Bai Li (1917). “Lustra of Ezra Pound, with Earlier Poems”
“The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”
“People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government.”

Source : Interview witn Andy Barr, www.politico.com. February 7, 2011.
“We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.”
“Believe it or not, I'm not really thinking about anything when I putt....It's hard to teach. I let my instincts take over. I like to see which way the break is going and use it. When I'm putting well, I feel like I can make everything.”
“Every hero becomes a bore at last.”

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