"I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other."

-- Caitlin Thomas

#Men Quotes #Tyranny Quotes

“It's a faithless love, but you hit four good shots and you've started your day right.”
“Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.”
“I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.”

Source : Dick Francis (1981). “Whip hand: Trial run ; Twice shy”
“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”

Source : Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.66, e-artnow (Open Publishing)
“Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might be, anything wild gets pulled - though as we'll see, some of the weeds growing in us have roots reaching deep into our shared past. Pull them if you want, but they'll just keep coming back again and again.”
“People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”
“Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.”

Source : "Bjorn Ulvaeus: ABBA star behind Mamma Mia". Interview with Gisella Deputato, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2009.
“Basketball isn't a game; It's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters: getting buckets.”

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