"Eleanor Roosevelt is a political force of enormous ambitions. I believe she is a menace, unscrupulous as to truth, vain and cynical - all with a pretense of exaggerated kindness and human feeling which deceives millions of gullible persons."

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Source : Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

Westbrook Pegler

#Kindness Quotes #Believe Quotes #Ambition Quotes

“Sometimes... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own.”

Source : Charles Sheehan-Miles (2012). “A Song for Julia”, p.158, Cincinnatus Press
“I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.”

Source : Philip Yancey (2010). “What Good is God?: On the Road with Stories of Grace”, p.185, Hachette UK
“George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.”
“People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.”
“It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.”
“It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass.”
“By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my old neighborhood. I shielded my eyes. This being early October, there were already piles of leaves pushed against the curbâ€”more leaves than I remembered from my autumns hereâ€”andless open space in the sky. I think what you notice most when you havenâ€™t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.”
“It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.”

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