"In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me."

-- William Congreve

#Believe Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.”
“I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates.”
“Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.”
“Happiness is like water. We’re always trying to grab onto it, but it’s always slipping between our fingers”

Source : Chinelo Okparanta (2013). “Happiness, Like Water”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.”
“If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.”
“Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.”
“In the hacking world, security is more of a response than a proactive measure. They wait for hackers to attack and then they patch, based on the attacks.”

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