"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Funny Inspirational Quotes #Wish Quotes #Common Quotes

“We said we would meet again but we made no arrangements. Not out of any bad feeling between us, but because I felt it had all been said, or not said but understood, and she probably did too. To know she was there was enough, and for her to know I was around was probably too. Sometimes that's all people ever really need. Just to know.”
“Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?”
“When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.”

Source : Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.47, VM eBooks
“In the fifth season [of Star Trek: The Next Generation] viewers will see more of shipboard life [including] gay crew members in day-to-day circumstances.”
“The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.”
“At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.”
“It's a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years.”
“Only the educated are free.”

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