"I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far."

-- Sidney Sheldon

#Country Quotes #Attitude Quotes #People Quotes

“If you have some other profession that allows you your evenings or weekends, terrific, stick with that. Having a profession other than writing also has the potential side benefit of providing you with material, something to write about.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Nowhere does one become more convinced of the strong hold which Freemasonry takes upon the minds and lives of those aging workers in the Craft who have attained its highest honors and of their firm belief in the power of its teachings to purify the soul of men and raise them to a new dignity and to greater heights of spirituality and practical morality.”
“...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.”

Source : Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.181, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
“You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.”
“The more we consume, the more we want. And the more we want, the more we have to work to pay for all these things and insure them and then get stressed about them and protect them and get bigger houses. I think true freedom comes with letting go of them.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“The doctrines which the Jews had been spreading throughout the land for years could not but have helped to undermine the Church's power.”
“Today government touches everything in America and harms almost everything it touches. Federal, state, and local governments together spend 42 out of every 100 dollars we earn. Those who do the taxing and spending have long since ceased to work for the people as a whole. Rather, they work for themselves and for their clients-the education industry, the welfare culture, public-employee unions, etc..”

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