"Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it."

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Source : George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.78, Lulu.com

George Horace Lorimer

#Hurt Quotes #Promise Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.”

Source : Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. April 9, 1997.
“I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.”
“We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much cash or time we get on Earth, but it is down to us how we spend it.”

Source : " What good luck to miss out on a £64m lottery win" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2012.
“I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didnâ€™t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowersâ€™ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.”
“God does not believe in our God.”

Source : Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.131, Tin House Books
“Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.”
“I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.”
“I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.”

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