"Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last."

-- William Penn

#Anger Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Strikes Quotes

“My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.”

Source : "Haley Joel Osment: What I've Learned" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“It has to be now,â€ he insisted, a flick of amusement in his voice. He nudged his burgeoning loins against her. â€œAfter all, you canâ€™t allow me to go around like this all day.â€ â€œFrom what Iâ€™ve learned so far, this is your natural condition,â€ came her pert reply.”
“Witchcraft is, and was, not... for everyone. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can slip for a few minutes out of the world into the world of faery, it is of no use to you.”
“The press heralded this as a major accomplishment. The rush from the press as soon as it was announced suggested a high level of coordination. Like lemmings in a staged dive off a cliff, 'historic' became the media's rallying cry. There is nothing historic about the deal. In fact, news reports from November 2012 noted that China expected, in 2012, that its carbon emissions would begin to decline after 2030 because of factory upgrades, efficiencies, etc.”

Source : Erick Erickson (2016). “The Wrong Type of Values”, p.60, Creators Publishing
“Beer drinkers have been duped by mass marketing into the belief that it makes sense to drink only one brand of beer. In truth, brand loyalty in beer makes no more sense than 'vegetable loyalty' in food. Can you imagine it? â€œNo thanks, I'll pass on the mashed potatoes, carrots, bread and roast beef. Me, I'm strictly a broccoli man.'”
“Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.”
“I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.”
“The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.”

Source : Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.21, City Lights Books

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