"If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation."

-- Gouverneur Morris

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.”
“People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it's just too much.”
“We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad. We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order. We see change as being order itself-indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.”
“Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.”

Source : L. Frank Baum (2007). “The Adventures of Trot & Cap'n Bill Before They Went to Oz - The Sea Fairies, Sky Island”, p.66, Lulu.com
“You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.”
“I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.”
“In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.”
“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.”

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