"The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity."

-- Lionel Shriver

#Seductive Quotes #Television Quotes #Killers Quotes

“Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.”
“As [House] speaker, I came back, working with President Bill Clinton. We passed a very Reagan-like program: less regulation, lower taxes. Unemployment dropped to 4.2 percent. We created 11 million jobs.”
“You should see me without makeup.”
“When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal.”

Source : "Didier Drogba: Chelsea needs win streak before thinking about title". Interview with Grant Wahl, www.si.com. January 19, 2011.
“Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?”
“If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on; appreciation causes you to linger.”
“Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.”
“If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.”

Source : "The Book of Positive Quotations" by John Cook, Steve Deger and Leslie Ann Gibson, (p. 279), 2007.

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