"The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty."

-- Karel Capek

#Sports Quotes #Honesty Quotes #Silence Quotes

“I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.”
“...and down they forgot as up they grew.”
“Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating.”
“Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of all greatness and wealth. Without labor there would be no government, no leading class, and nothing to preserve.”
“There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie.”

Source : "Fictional character: Alfred Munson". "Indiscreet", www.imdb.com. 1958.
“Gyrating J.R., pretty darn good!”
“Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.”
“It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.”

Source : "Complete Phil Ochs: Chords of Fame". Book edited by Tom Nolan and Mark Eliot, 1978.

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