"There's always faith... Faith that whatever the other is doing, it's for a good reason."

--

Peter Burke

“I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!”
“It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had.”
“If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.”

Source : Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.281, Best Books on
“I simply want the music to to find its way to open-minded people.”
“I am always impressed by the fact that even the tiniest amount of being listened to, the barest suggestion of the possibility of kind treatment, can bring such an immediate rush of emotion. I think this is because we are almost never really listened to. In my work as a psychologist, I am reminded every day of how infrequently we are heard, any of us, or our actions even marginally understood. And one of the ironies of my "listening profession" is its lesson that, in many ways, each of us ultimately remains a mystery to everyone else.”
“Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the Australian people. The extreme right has connotations with it that I would never seek to identify with.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.”
“Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.”

Source : "Fast Food Dating Your 2 Cents". Book by Peter Sacco and Jennifer Schott, 2011.

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