"Do you know why more people don't sober up? Because they don't wear their livers on the outside. If everyone wore their liver on their forehead, say, it would be on full view and people would say, 'Heffens, Jock, that liver of yours is looking fair hobnailed,' and they would get shamed into doing something about it."

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Source : M.C. Beaton (2009). “Death of a Poison Pen”, p.157, Hachette UK

M.C. Beaton

#Drinking Quotes #Views Quotes #People Quotes

“Say what you doin and not what you finna do”
“What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.”
“We work with tweens. Middle school grades. That's a key time in a young person's literary history. That's the time when they're still open to reading, but there are other things that are starting to interest them that can pull them out of their reading habits. It's a critical time to make the reading habits stick, but at the same time it's not pulling teeth to try to get them to read in the first place.”
“Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.”
“Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.”
“We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning.”

Source : Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.
“An extraordinary set of reminiscences, beautifully put together by an extremely sensitive, even gifted interviewer. It is a jewel.”
“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”

Source : Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.6, OUP Oxford

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