"Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism."

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

#Eye Quotes #Years Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Today's biggest headlines are stories about people who thought they were doing something that was secret: Jesse Jackson's secret girlfriend and child, Monica Lewinski's private meetings with the president and confidential girl talk with Linda Tripp. Just think of the news stories we've watched on television...”

Source : Ted Haggard (2003). “Letters from Home”, Regal Books
“In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.”
“In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.”

Source : Letter to Vladimir Stassov on October 18, 1872. "Moussorgsky". Book by Oskar von Riesemann, translated by Paul England, p. 107, 1929.
“And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news-- that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.”
“I donâ€™t expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.”
“Intelligence officers are supposed to put the facts on the table and really walk away from the policy discussion.”

Source : "Flawed Intelligence In The 'War Of Our Time'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 10, 2015.
“Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist. .”

Source : Lennox Lewis @LennoxLewis, twitter.com. April 21, 2012.
“The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.”

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