"Whitney: Where is your home? Clayton: Wherever you are."

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Judith McNaught

#Home Quotes #Whitney Quotes

“Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. Too often those with authority are able (and willing) to surround themselves with people who support their decisions without question.”
“But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more”
“Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.”

Source : William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc”, p.36
“You are not going to 'go forth.' You are going to take that damn hat off and you're going to get a job.”
“What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.”

Source : Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.12, University of Chicago Press
“On Wednesday, July 19, the Council, having gleaned and discerned, released its official verdict: the fall of the tile bearing the letter "Z" constitutes the terrestrial manifestation of an empyrean Nollopian desire, that desire most surely being that the letter "Z" should be utterly excised--fully extirpated--absolutively heave-ho'ed from our communal vocabulary!”
“You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.”

Source : William Dean Howells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics
“Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself.”

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