"Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing."

-- Viggo Mortensen

#Mean Quotes #Talking Quotes #Cities Quotes

“There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run through a set of vanities, in the declension of his age, he knows not what to do with himself, if he cannot think; he saunters about from one dull business to another, to wear out time; and hath no reason to value Life but because he is afraid of death.”
“Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.”

Source : Edgar Albert Guest (1921*). “Poems: A Souvenir”
“Im always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the Presidents plan have not been invited to the discussion.”
“The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you.”

Source : Source: www.independent.co.uk
“I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.”
“It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.”
“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”

Source : George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.152, Penguin
“Perish each thought of human pride, let God alone be magnified.”

Source : Philip Doddridge, John Doddridge HUMPHREYS (1839). “Scriptural Hymns ... New and corrected edition, containing many hymns never before printed. Edited ... by ... J. D. Humphreys, etc”, p.36

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