"I donâ€™t mind if you donâ€™t like my manners. Theyâ€™re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."

-- Raymond Chandler

#Winter Quotes #Grieving Quotes #Long Quotes

“Well, actually, if you can stay in your home that is a better deal for the neighborhood. It's certainly a better deal for the person that is in their home, rather than to be on the street and for that house to go into foreclosure and become a problem for the whole community.”

Source : "Democrats Mulling New Housing Bailout Plan". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. October 27, 2011.
“I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I've never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.”
“I wanted to get the fastest time in the world this year, but with everything going on, it's a pretty decent swim, ... I knew I was under world record pace. You could tell by the crowd. You can always tell at these meets when something good is going on because of the crowd.”
“I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.”
“God speaks with authority on every subject including marriage and His advice trumps Oprah's every time.”
“Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.”

Source : Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The courage to be happy”
“There should be a law to the People besides its own will.”
“Unemployed and dependent - is not as parasite.”

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