"Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile."

-- Taylor Caldwell

#Mind Quotes #Despair Quotes #May Quotes

“American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.”

Source : Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns
“When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.”
“The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that." "You don't have to go to the party. You don't have to go to the ceremony. You don't have to do anything at all." "But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. I'm so sick.”
“If I could look back at the seeds of faith, they were planted back then. I remember in my early teenage years - when, naturally, we become more rebellious, prideful, self-directed and self-willed - I had this nun, Sister Mary Martinella, I'll never forget her - only because of one thing that she said that stuck in my spirit. And it was a rebuke.”
“That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.”
“France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .”

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