"Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue."

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Source : Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read”

Edward Dahlberg

#Unattractive Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”
“It is harder to cut our gains than our losses.”

Source : "Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms".
“The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.”
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
“If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.”

Source : Dick Butkus (1997). “Butkus: Flesh and Blood”, Doubleday Books
“If God would grant us the vision, the word sacrifice would disappear from our lips and thoughts; we would hate the things that seem now so dear to us; our lives would suddenly be too short, we would despise time-robbing distractions and charge the enemy with all our energies in the name of Christ. May God help us ourselves by the eternities that separate the Aucas from a Comprehension of Christmas and Him, who, though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor so that we might, through his poverty, be made rich.”
“People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan.”
“We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.”

Source : FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Mar 30, 2012

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