"To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights."

-- Andre Maurois

#Pairs Quotes #Weight Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.”
“Weâ€™re destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.”
“Breath is the king of mind.”
“To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and humiliation.”
“I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.”

Source : Letter to Thomas Carlyle, 7 May 1822, in C. R. Sanders et al. (eds.) 'The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle' (1970) vol. 2
“I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.”

Source : Interview with Will Welch, www.gq.com. October 20, 2009.
“Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid something we fear. We rely more on our own efforts than on those of his Providence, and we think we are doing a great deal by anticipating His orders by our own disorder, which causes us to rely on human prudence rather than on his Word.”

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