"Being a Scotsman, I am naturally opposed to water in its undiluted state."

-- Alastair Mackenzie

#Golf Quotes #Water Quotes #States Quotes

“I don't like the idea of telling private business owners - I abhor racism. I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership. But I absolutely think there should be no discrimination in anything that gets any public funding.”
“The only reason I started using samples was because people talked about me not sounding like Kanye or The Heatmakers.”
“I had the feeling of being crushed under a rock till I could see only one crack of light, and that was the love of God.”

Source : Gerald Priestland (1993). “My pilgrim way: late writings”, Burns & Oates
“I've noticed that the people who started on film still have the ability to see the person in front of them. Whereas for a lot of photographers who have only ever worked in digital, the relationship between the photographer and the person who they're taking a picture of sort of doesn't exist anymore. They're looking at a computer screen as opposed to the person.”
“Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. I write entirely to find out what Iâ€™m thinking, what Iâ€™m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
“There's so many guys skiing so fast right now that you really have to be willing to take a lot of risks if you want to give yourself a chance to win. I'm prepared to do it; it's just a matter of if I can make it work.”
“Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings,--a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate.”
“Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.”

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