"The first of all qualities of a general is courage."

-- David McCullough

#Courage Quotes #Quality Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“It's wonderful to be in love. And it's definitely wonderful to cuddle and have sex and get to experience life with somebody. But it's OK if you don't find him and you're 24. You can find it someday.”
“One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to fill up your head with it, to absorb it, to make poetry an essential part of how you view the world.”
“We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.”

Source : Ali Smith (2015). “Hotel World”, p.104, Penguin UK
“I myself share with the Conservative Party a profound dislike for such fandangles as proportional representation.”
“No star playing, just football.”
“Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary. Only the love in your heart will last forever.”
“The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.”
“And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and their Governors shall be so weak or so wicked, as for the sake of keeping their places, to be made the instruments in putting them in execu tion, who will presume to say that the people have not a right, or that it is not their indispensible duty to God and their Country, by all rational means in their power to RESIST THEM.”

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