"George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder."

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Source : 'More Biography' (1929) 'George the Third'

E. C. Bentley

#Wonder Quotes #Grotesque Quotes #Blunders Quotes

“One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.”
“Don't put yourself in a time-out.”
“Son, there are times a man has to do things he doesn't like to, in order to protect his family.”

Source : Ralph Moody (1991). “Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers”, p.120, U of Nebraska Press
“I promise if you keep searching for everything beautiful in this world, you will eventually become it.”
“The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.”

Source : Interview with Filip Vukcevic, www.ign.com. September 19, 2007.
“I fell in love with scent when I was a small boy. I was intrigued by how each bottle on my mother's dressing table gave such a different scent-each like a genie waving its spell, transporting us away from the mundane to worlds full of fantasy.”
“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.”
“I don't want a team that escapes from reality and escapes from the truth. I don't want people who are always escaping, who always have a story and are always conniving. An ostrich tries to escape from the truth. Isn't an ostrich the thing that puts its head in the sand? But guess what's sticking out when he does it? It's ass, that's what. I don't want a team like that......Because when you have a team like that and trouble comes, that team will not face the trouble.”

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