"And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths."

-- George Horace Lorimer

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Special Quotes

“When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise”
“We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.”
“Without Jesus they were the great priests of the temple; with Jesus suddenly they were nobodies. In the presence of Jesus there was God himself and all the priests felt their glory had been taken away.”
“We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.”
“Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is not enough. One must give everything.”
“Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.”
“I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.”
“Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low.”

Source : Robert Herrick (1856). “Hesperides Or The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick”, p.236

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