"I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that."

-- Eleanor Porter

#Long Quotes #Trying Quotes #Sound Quotes

“I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.”

Source : Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.101, Cambridge University Press
“I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.”
“I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.”
“I would like to address the peoples of the world, especially the Arab peoples and the US people. Their silence over the violations against the oppressed Iraqi people who suffered greatly cannot be accepted by any fair-minded and zealous person. Therefore, all must take these violations seriously and express themselves even through peaceful demonstrations, sit-ins and protests. I urge those people to distance themselves from their rulers who support the West and the occupation forces.”
“We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.”
“Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.”
“In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.”
“For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.”

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