"Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty."

-- John Selden

#New Year Quotes #Happy New Year Quotes #Resolution Quotes

“Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.”
“I will never cede the authority of our country or our security to any other nation. I'll never give a veto over American security to any other entity - not a nation, not a country, not an institution.”
“Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight.”

Source : FaceBook post by Evander Holyfield from Nov 15, 2015
“To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.”

Source : Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian theology, by A. Clarke, selected from his writings, with a life of the author by S. Dunn”, p.70
“The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.”
“There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.”

Source : "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.
“You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday”
“In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.”

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