"There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Taken Quotes #Character Quotes #Opposites Quotes

“Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.”
“I'm personally not into a guy who wears pedal pushers and a necklace.”
“But an apology too â€” you think youâ€™re giving something, but youâ€™re not. Youâ€™re really asking for something. Youâ€™re asking for forgiveness, youâ€™re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.”
“I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and that was always depressing.”
“NSEERS was so poorly conceived and badly managed that it created chaos and fear. Trust between the immigrant community and law enforcement was severely strained and, in the end, there was no evidence that any terrorists were apprehended as a result of the effort.”
“But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.”

Source : George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.27, tredition
“Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.”
“I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message.”

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