"One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They used to play golf together; their families got to know each other, go to dinner at each other's homes at weekends - and these would be people who were political adversaries."

-- Robert M. Gates

#Home Quotes #Golf Quotes #Weekend Quotes

“He threatens many that hath injured one.”
“One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.”
“A new year reminds us that regardless of how often we fail or miss the mark, God freely offers opportunity to begin anew.”
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulneÂss while telling carefully constructeÂd lies, to hold simultaneoÂusly two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictÂory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy ....”
“If you want to catch fish, donâ€™t throw your net into the bathtub.”
“I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.”
“When you create wealth, itâ€™s your responsibility to return it to society.”
“I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.”

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