"Belgium is a country with a split personality."

-- Nicholas Royle

#Country Quotes #Personality Quotes #Splits Quotes

“Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.”
“My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.”
“It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.”
“The future has an ancient heart.”
“All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.”
“I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho[ugh] popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho[ugh] I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.”

Source : "The World’s Famous Orations", Vol. III, Great Britain: I (710–1777) by William Jennings Bryan, 1906.
“I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.”

Source : Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”
“As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"”

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