"No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese."

-- Patrick O'Brian

#Men Quotes #Portuguese Quotes #Born Quotes

“Purity without balance is its own corruption.”
“We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines”
“What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.”
“We need one strong hombre or hombre-ette, and I'm the hombre-ette to go and stand for you in Washington DC.”
“Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with the intellect and disposition, only it is frequently less apparent, and we give ourselves but little trouble to discover it.”

Source : John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.155
“The contortions and games of identity that politicians play on themselves almost everyday is kind of extraordinary. Trump, for instance, speaks like a five-year-old in these vague generalities but then also makes out that he's an expert on everything; he's trying to have his cake and eat it. He's someone who is pretending that he's for the working person but comes from this enormously privileged background.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify.”

Source : "David Hoffman on 'The Dead Hand' and End of the Cold War". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.
“Right or wrong, when a team is doing well, the head coach and the quarterback get all the praise and when a team's not doing well, the head coach and the quarterback get all the blame. I've learned to drown that out.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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