"The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn."

-- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

#Lying Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Shining Quotes

“I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can't adequately describe.”
“...wingsâ€”-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame.”
“Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.”
“I have no idea what I did. I heard people talk about dead leg, shake, change of pace and all that, but I did things without thinking about them.”
“I haven`t prepared as much as I would like to but it will be fun to get out there again. I have nothing left to prove in surfing but still have the desire to keep going.”
“We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.”
“Isn't it my right to talk and say what I want to?”

Source : "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. October 14, 2005.
“There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.”

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