"It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages."

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William Carlos Williams

#Lying Quotes #Secret Quotes #Age Quotes

“Women; can't live with em, can't kill em”
“Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.”

Source : William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2002). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential messages to Congress”
“I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people.”
“The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.”
“What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.”
“Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.”
“Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.”

Source : Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.161, Canongate Books
“Oddly enough, I think that everybody can relate to revenge, on some level. Everyone has wanted to exact it, at some point, and everybody has tampered with the idea, even if they didn't actually go through with it.”

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