"Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?"

-- Andrew Greeley

#Country Quotes #Patience Quotes #Long Quotes

“Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.”

Source : "Rian Johnson Builds a Better Time Machine" by Adams Sternberg, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2012.
“No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.”
“If our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can handle, how will we ever experience His omnipotence in our lives?”
“Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.”
“Most people have thought of ... climate change as a problem about the environment that is separate and distinct from problems of human wellbeing.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us.”
“As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'”

Source : Tom Vanderbilt (2008). “Traffic”, p.141, Vintage
“I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.”

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