"Congratulations to Obama! He's now increased the debt more in three years than George W. Bush did his entire eight year presidency. But all that spending was worth it because just look at the great results! So what exactly is the argument that Obama isn't a hugely incompetent failure? So far it's 'Look! Over there! A war on women!'"

-- Frank J. Fleming

#Congratulations Quotes #War Quotes #Exactly Is Quotes

“The unlived life isn't worth examining.”
“Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!”

Source : FaceBook post by Naomi Novik from Jun 25, 2014
“Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.”

Source : John Masefield (1941). “Dead Ned and Live and Kicking Ned”
“My dad told me that when I was born my cheeks were so fat the doctors didn't know which end to spank.”
“I believe that we can accomplish any object that we make up our minds to, and no boy or girl ought to sit down and say, because they cannot do as well as somebody else, that they will not do anything. God has given to some people ten talents; to others, he has given one; but they who improve the one talent will live to see the day when they will far outshine those who have ten talents but fail to improve them.”
“There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's nonsense. Photography isn't testimony.”
“Anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around - you're traveling in order to be moved. And really what you're seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you're sleepwalking through your daily life.”

Source : "The Art of Stillness". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 4, 2015.
“The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was not saying, and understand why Harpo would not talk.”

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