"President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it."

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Source : Ken Follett (2011). “Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy”, p.347, Penguin

Ken Follett

#Blow Quotes #Wind Quotes #One Direction Quotes

“Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose.”
“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”
“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.”

Source : Samuel Adams (1946). “Samuel Adams: selections from his writings”
“Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.”
“To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.”
“Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.”

Source : "Colm Tóibín, novelist - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2013.
“...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.”

Source : Rachel Field (1934). “Branches Green”
“I need to solve the problem. It's no different from how am I going to get my son out the door when he needs to go to school. It's a bigger version of that same type of problem.”

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