"For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish."

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Djuna Barnes

#People Quotes #Nasty Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Style is the image of character.”
“Is it really in our countrys best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out a little longer because congressional determination to defeat them is crumbling? Doesnt such a resolution further diminish our chances for success at the very time our soldiers are preparing to go into battle? And finally, regardless of our politics is this the time to announce to the world that our president is 'on his own'?”
“I didn't expect to see Kim, but I'm gonna be professional when I really just want to sock her in the face”
“Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.”
“There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I usually am accused of having a crystal ball into which I can gaze and look into the future.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.”
“He's a gritty hockey player, he's got good vision, he's an intelligent player.”

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