"I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally."

-- Ulysses S. Grant

#Country Quotes #Appreciate Quotes #Attention Quotes

“I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.”
“You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.”
“We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.”
“Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.”
“A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!”
“Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and sob probes, and you would mark them. Women--and they can be wives, lovers, gaunt muses, fat nurses, obsessions, devourers, exes, nemeses--will wake and turn to these men and ask, with female need-to-know, "What is it?" And the men will say, "Nothing. No it isn't anything really. Just sad dreams.”

Source : Martin Amis (2010). “The Information”, p.9, Random House
“Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.”
“The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients.”

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