"Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him ! O these fashionable people!"

-- Fanny Burney

#Home Quotes #Tired Quotes #Hands Quotes

“What feeds a fighters soul is victory.”
“My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.”

Source : William Maxwell, Barbara Burkhardt (2012). “Conversations with William Maxwell”, p.45, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.”

Source : "Nicholas Stern: We must not give in to pessimism" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.
“Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.”
“Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case...”
“We are all here now and we have to solve our differences and live together as Australians... I will use the title you have honoured me with to bring the Australian people together... Together we can build a remarkable country, the envy of the rest of the world.”
“I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.”
“Don't hire the most qualified, hire the craziest”

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