"We have the Israelis coming to us for equipment. We can say we can't possibly get the Congress to support a program like this. And they say don't worry about the Congress. We will take care of the Congress. This is somebody from another country, but they can do it. They own, you know, the banks in this country. The newspapers. Just look at where the Jewish money is."

-- George Scratchley Brown

#Country Quotes #Worry Quotes #Support Quotes

“You never know that this is the moment when you're in the moment. When I was sixteen I moved to a smaller town in Vermont, and at that time I didn't have a band to play in. So I was forced to play in Top 40 bands and fraternity bands and wedding bands. That was all pop music, but I was listening to Weather Report and classical music. Then I went to Berklee College of Music in 1978, and you had Victor Bailey there, and Steve Vai. And suddenly I was among my ilk.”
“We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration . . .”

Source : Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.12, Wesleyan University Press
“Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if you're a little better than competent, everyone expects miracles from you, every single time. Like most of life, it's a no-win situation. And if you dare to mention it, no matter how creatively you phrase your complaints, you are shunned as a whiner.”
“recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year. Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.”

Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.384, eBookIt.com
“I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.”
“I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.”
“I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.”

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