"When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me."

-- Scott Joplin

#Years Quotes #People Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.”
“I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.”
“The danger which threatens us comes from Labour...Those who think that the Conservative or Unionist Party, standing as such and disavowing its Liberal allies, could return with a working majority are living in a fools paradise and, if they persist, may easily involve themselves and the country in dangers the outcome of which it is hard to predict.”

Source : "The Impact of Labour, 1920-1924: The Beginnings of Modern British Politics" by Maurice Cowling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (p. 181), 1971.
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
“Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms.”
“Fat is mainstream, which is why everyone has become complacent. What used to be considered pudgy before isn't even worthy of a comment today.”
“If you want a free email service that doesn't use your words to target ads to you, you'll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.”
“Keep honoring God with your life, stay in peace, trust His timing and God will open doors that no man can shut.”

Source : Twitter post from May 3, 2013

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