"It used to be fashionable for authors to have their pictures taken with dogs, but the dogs always looked like models hired from an advertising agency, and probably were."

-- Robertson Davies

#Dog Quotes #Taken Quotes #Agency Quotes

“I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again.”

Source : "Socialist Francois Hollande defeats Nicolas Sarkozy in French presidential election", www.foxnews.com. May 06, 2012.
“May love fill your heart, compassion guide your mind, faith rule your soul.”

Source : FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 12, 2014
“If you have waves of immigration, you better figure out a way to turn those immigrants into red-blooded Americans, or else you end up splintering the society.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.”
“The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1970). “The theme is freedom”
“Companies arenâ€™t families. Theyâ€™re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routinesâ€”habitsâ€”that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a dayâ€™s work done.”
“While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205.”

Source : "'Communists in Government Service,' McCarthy Says". Joseph McCarthy's Lincoln's birthday address to the Women's Republican Club of Wheeling in West Virginia, www.senate.gov. February 9, 1950.
“You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable.”

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