"Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."

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Source : "Fictional character: Elwood P. Dowd". "Harvey", www.imdb.com. December 20, 1950.

Mary Chase

#Mother Quotes #Smart Quotes #Years Quotes

“Fear comes from the unknown. Once you know, then, whatever.”
“I chose Congo in order to become close to a place that we had turned away from. It isn't present in our imaginations, in the stories we tell each other. Yet it's relevant to our lives and to our worlds, in a practical way. Congo supplies raw materials for the things that we use on a daily basis. We are intimately linked to Congo, economically. We're linked to it through human events that are occurring there, that affect all of us, and yet you don't find narratives of Congo present in our lives.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.”
“Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.”
“If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.”

Source : Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.323, Simon and Schuster
“We must constantly remain in a state of prayer; it is not something we do for just a few minutes now and again, or on certain occasions when we are especially in need. It is extremely important that God can speak to us all the time. This makes it much easier to seek the kingdom of heaven at all times.”
“A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.”
“I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.”

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