"It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices."

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Source : Menzies Campbell (2008). “Menzies Campbell: My Autobiography”

Menzies Campbell

#Vices Quotes #Scottish Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.”
“Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.”
“We've tried to use some visual motifs [in Beauty and the Beast]. As far as the cinematography and the lensing and all that, we are presenting a different view into that world. It's a little sleeker, but we're keeping the gothic feel underneath it.”
“It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.”
“No Child Left Behind ... is a giraffe with an elephant's body. ... You can't take the vision of Ted Kennedy and merge it to the public policy of George Bush and come out with anything that works.”
“The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.”

Source : "Unkempt Thoughts" as translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.
“Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.”
“Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.”

Source : Ben Shapiro (0101). “And We All Fall Down”, p.55, Creators Publishing

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