"Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline."

-- Jane Byrne

#Aggravation Quotes #Chicago Quotes #Decline Quotes

“I intend to stay on her like hair on soap.”
“The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.”
“By a persistent effort of will it is possible to change the whole body. The athlete must always keep in mind this concept of change and progression. He must never accept his limitations as being permanent, because they are not.”
“If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.”
“If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission.”

Source : Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.236, Simon and Schuster
“The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”
“Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts.”
“Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.”

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