"Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for its kind services!"

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Source : Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.10, University of Toronto Press

Nellie L. McClung

#Grateful Quotes #May Quotes #Matter Quotes

“A paranoid thinks that sinister forces are out to get him, not realizing that they are out to get everybody.”
“I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.”
“I have lived a carnal life. My view of life is 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!' I don't have to go through the thing of paying for it in the next life. I know I'm screwed in the next life.”
“I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself.”
“Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes â€“ they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.”

Source : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (2010). “The Devil's Church and Other Stories”, p.13, University of Texas Press
“We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.”
“Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.”
“Europe is nervous. Already rattled this year by the shock of the Brexit vote, the European Union needs stability in Italy, a country notorious for its instability.”

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