"I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good."

-- Malachy McCourt

#Cigarette Quotes #Used Quotes #Philanderer Quotes

“I want to be that good. I want to be Barry Bonds. I want when I pitch to be 'Win Day.' I want my teammates to relax on the days I pitch because they know they only have to get us a couple of runs. I'm totally prepared for that.”
“What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?”
“Peter stood, cleared his throat, and began to hum softly, then sing, slowly building up the song as his voice cleared. He found the old tune, the song of the Sunbird. And as he sung, as his rich voice echoed off the tall cliffs, the birds and the faeries lent him their voice and soon the tune drifted throughtout the garden.”
“No matter who becomes chancellor, Poland and Germany will remain neighbours, strategic partners, not only within the European Union, but also world partners, and I don't believe anything could change in our relations.”
“We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.”

Source : Inaugural Address, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. January 20, 1969.
“We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven.”
“Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.”
“Since I've grown up I really wanted to be able to create something different. In Persian music, opposite, again, to classical music, that the instrument developed and evolved over, like, hundreds of years, our instrument all remained the same.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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