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“Bad day?" "Every day is a bad day here." "Eh, this place isnt't so terrible." "How are you always cheerful?" "Alcohol," he says with a sideways grin.”
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“The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.”
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“Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers.”
Source : John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.371
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“When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.”
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“You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.”
Source : Michel Faber (2014). “The Book of Strange New Things”, p.447, Canongate Books
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“What can I say about this move? Nothing so I won't.”
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“Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.”
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“No country has a perfect report card. While some countries have strong points in specific areas, they may have serious lacunae in other areas. For instance, some countries have made enormous progress on civil and political rights, but lag in the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights.”
Source : Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, July 1, 2013.
