"Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream."

-- Owen Feltham

#Rivers Quotes #Rowing Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'”
“How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?”

Source : Twitter post from May 02, 2013
“Iâ€™m even flattered! Itâ€™s what success is like. Iâ€™m happy I seem unreal to them, it means Iâ€™m doing a good job,”
“I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.”
“I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.”
“Too often, we decide to follow a path that is not really our own, one that others have set for us. We forget that...in both cases we will pass through both difficult and happy moments. But when we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.”
“I really do think that if you're doing your job right, you're never gonna be what the other actor was, but you can be influenced by his intelligence and his choices.”

Source : "Paul Krugman on why Janet Yellen is the un-central banker". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. October 30, 2014.
“Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?”

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