"ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed."

-- James Salter

#Realization Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.”
“I'm a really humble person and I'm a really on-the-go person. For me, it's never that serious.”

Source : Source: gothamist.com
“When I walk off the field exhausted, drenched in sweat, knowing I pushed myself to the physical, mental, and emotional limits, there is no better feeling.”
“I had a great deal of independence from the president and the White House during the entirety of my five years. And I'm not sure exactly what that is, but our friend, Walter Dellinger, has a theory about it, and I think he's probably right. And the theory starts with the fact that I worked in the White House for a year and a half before coming over to the position of SG. And because of that, when I was nominated, there was some chatter out there that, "Oh. They're putting a political hack in. This has never happened before."”
“I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women”
“They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.”
“The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.”

Source : Bernard Crick (2013). “In Defence of Politics”, p.97, A&C Black
“One of the problems in the United States is the refusal on the part of our young people to remember or to want to remember, or to recognize the experiences of the past as being relevant, germane, important to the present and to the future. They simply don't want anything that's painful. They want to live in a painless society where everything is pleasant, and everything is joyful.”

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