"To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness."

-- Paul Eldridge

#Wisdom Quotes #Long Quotes #Gathering Quotes

“The body is solid material wrapped around the breath”
“Why, I make more money than-than-than Calvin Coolidge, put together!”

Source : "Fictional character: Lina Lamont". "Singin' in the Rain", www.imdb.com. 1952.
“I wasnâ€™t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasnâ€™t that I wasnâ€™t right for Macon, but that maybe he wasnâ€™t right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things didnâ€™t come easy for, someone like me.”
“I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I'm willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I could do a good job with the right material.”
“It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral;”

Source : Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.13, Vintage
“A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone”
“In the FA Cup, you always have to expect the unexpectable”
“I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people.”

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