"Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving."

-- Mary McGrory

#Proud Quotes #Inanimate Objects Quotes #Spiteful Quotes

“I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.”
“In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.”
“Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to pattern recognition that seems to me to be of great importance. It's a matter of being able to find meaning, whether it's positive or negative, in whatever you encounter. It's like a journey. It's like finding the paths that will allow you to go forward, or that path that has a block that tells you to start over again or do something else.”
“...How can Americans living in the freest country in the world be 'slaves'? We don't even enjoy the liberty of serfs. ( A serf paid only 25% of his earnings to his feudal lord. How much income tax do you pay?) Don't kid yourselves, we're slaves. Slaves with weekends off.”
“There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.”

Source : Smith Wigglesworth (2006). “Smith Wigglesworth on Prayer”, p.78, Destiny Image Publishers
“What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving.”

Source : Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.224, Mercer University Press
“I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.”

Source : Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.72
“I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.”

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