"It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable."

-- E. J. Hughes

#Wish Quotes #Coats Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Them bats is smart. They use radar!”
“We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.”

Source : Sen. Robert C. Byrd (2008). “Letter to a New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader”, p.83, Macmillan
“In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.”

Source : Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.305, Random House
“I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.”
“I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.”
“We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.”
“When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive...abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.”
“Iâ€™ve been dead for seven years, thatâ€™s as warm as they get.”

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