"The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows."

-- Socrates

#Change Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Departure Quotes

“There are a lot of people who say we need to cut the amount of money that's spent in politics. I'm not sure that I agree. But I am sure that if you were talking about cutting the amount of money spent in politics, the media would have a strong interest in opposing you, because they make an enormous amount of money from political advertisements.”
“I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.”

Source : Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph
“The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers of the Self may be shown forth in manifestation.”

Source : Winifred Holtby (2011). “South Riding”, p.455, Hachette UK
“I once read about a meeting of economists who agreed that if their forecasts were 33 1/3 % correct, that was considered a high mark in their profession. Well, of course, I know you cannot invest in securities successfully with odds like that against you if you place dependence solely upon judgement as to the right securities to own and the right time or price to buy them. Then, too, I read somewhere about the man who described an economist as resembling â€˜a professor of anatomy who was still a virgin.â€™”
“I'm open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.”
“Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.”
“The current relationship between Syria and Iran is abnormal. It is unprecedented in Syria's foreign policy history. A new Syria will be an indispensable part of the Arab League and it will work on improving the role of the Arab League and the role of Arab states regionally, specifically because they took a historic and unprecedented decision to back the Syrian people.”
“Between lovers, betrayal is always the worst sin.”

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