"The government will take the fairest of names, but the worst of realities--mob rule."

-- Polybius

#Reality Quotes #Names Quotes #Government Quotes

“Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I Âalways have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Geoff Dyer, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.”

Source : Aristotle, Gilbert Murray (1920). “On the Art of Poetry”, p.12, Oxford University Press on Demand
“My goal has been to be a great character actor.”
“Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.”
“She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are whatâ€™s making her strong.”
“Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change someone else. Well, you don't. You only have the right to choose how you will change and behave. Trust others to make their own choices. Put the accountability for another's actions where it belongs, on the other person's shoulders.”
“The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.”

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