"No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'"

-- Stacy Schiff

#Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now, if one awakens in the deep darkness of the small hours, one can hear it, a foretaste of Winter silence. Itâ€™s a little painful now, and a little lonely because it is so strange.”
“I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.”
“We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact.”
“These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.”
“To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.”

Source : Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”
“If this taxation exemptions for Church were rescinded, our property taxes would be substantially lowered, and those who rent houses and apartments would consequently be able to pass along this savings in the form of lowered rents. It could have a profoundly salubrious effect on the entire economy.”
“I don't ever apologize for who I am because then I let someone else decide who I am.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face.”

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