"All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends."

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Source : 1857 On finally achieving his country's highest political office at the age of 65.

James Buchanan

#Punishment Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Rewards Quotes

“A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."”
“I want to do more drama. Comedy is the path of least resistance for my company. People know we can do them. People know they get a good response. People want to make them. Who am I to push up against that?”
“As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.”
“Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.”
“I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.”
“As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where particular state constitutions paid ideological lip service to constraints deriving from religious or natural law doctrines, they reserved to some constitutionally-defined body or person the right to interpret these doctrines.”
“[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.”
“Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be.”

Source : C. P. Cavafy (2015). “Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy”, p.14, Princeton University Press

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