"In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma."

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Hendrik Willem van Loon

#World Quotes #Cases Quotes #Dilemma Quotes

“My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.”
“People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.”
“That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.”

Source : FaceBook post by Claire Messud from Jan 20, 2013
“I am up and about when I am ill, and in the most appalling weather. I am on horseback when other men would be flat out on their beds, complaining. We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills.”
“The worst of lusts is vanity.”
“I have been in the Democratic Caucus in the Senate for over 24 years.”
“This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this...”
“Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.”

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