"I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs."

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Source : Jo Grimond (1979). “Memoirs”, David & Charles Publishers

Jo Grimond

#Play Quotes #Long Quotes #Affair Quotes

“Tribulations often enrich, refine, and guide us to a deeper understanding of the purpose of our existence here in mortality and of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.”
“I know we will create a society where there are no rich or poor, no people without work or beauty in their lives, where money itself will disappear, where we shall all be brothers and sisters, where every one will have enough.”
“First of all, I'm happy that I'm healthy.”
“To me, more importantly, I want to make films that I believe in, that I find value in that I think folks will like.”
“The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding.”
“I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.”
“The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.”
“I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.”

Source : Daniil Kharms, Neil Cornwell (1993). “Incidences”, Serpents Tail

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