"Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!"

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Source : Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1882). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. Edinburgh ed”

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

#Easy Quotes #Goodness Quotes #Doing Good Quotes

“Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.”
“You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.”
“Also consider that someday, when youâ€™re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.”
“But in the end, I suppose, we only have one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.”

Source : Davy Rothbart (2012). “My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays”, p.333, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.”

Source : Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir John Hawkins (1775). “The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation...: Prefixed, the Lives of the Author and Notes ...”, p.125
“Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them.”
“Well, you know, I don't think anyone who writes a television series has a master plan from the beginning, and knows all the character traits, and everything that's going to happen.”

Source : "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day". Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.
“I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.”

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