"Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden."

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Lewis Carroll

#Opportunity Quotes #Silence Quotes #Golden Quotes

“I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.”
“For a moment, Jason could only stand there in the hallway with his nose pressed up against the cold wood of her door. After a few seconds, he knocked politely. Taylor whipped open the door, unamused. Jason grinned at her. â€œI just gotta ask: Where did you get the whole â€˜all the cute girls run around nakedâ€™ thing?â€ â€œI defend sexual harassment cases, Mr. Andrews,â€ she replied coolly. "Iâ€™ve seen and heard things even you havenâ€™t thought of.â€ â€œCare to test out that theory?â€ She slammed the door in his face again.”
“You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.”
“While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis”
“Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.”
“I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human.”
“It's alright to do things the way you want. There is no map to life, no blueprints to survival, you can create your world day by day if you have a clear vision and an unwillingness to give up.”

Source : "The Maine Unveil 'Anthem For a Dying Breed' DVD Documentary Details". PureVolume interview, www.purevolume.com.
“Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”

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