"No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting."

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Source : J. Frank Dobie, John D. Young (1998). “A Vaquero of the Brush Country: The Life and Times of John D. Young”, p.99, University of Texas Press

J. Frank Dobie

#Cowboy Quotes #Quitting Quotes #Duty Quotes

“I think I am a moral man.”

Source : "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. August 24, 2001.
“At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.”
“And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.”

Source : Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 8, 2012.
“Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.”
“Ruling the way God wants you to rule means fostering the ordered relationships he desires, not because he is a killjoy, but because that order maximizes human happiness and love for God. Part of that is worshipping only the true God and no other.”
“Service rendered as a gift or love-offering to Life: work that is engaged in, not for self or for profit, but as an act of love and service, these bring the doer a harvest of blessings. . . . When we serve and when we give, we open ourselves to receive life's richest blessings, its greatest prizes, and its most enduring lessons.”
“Everybody values their train, but they want to zero-out other people's trains.”
“The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.”

Source : Henry Handel Richardson (2008). “Maurice Guest”, p.18, Sydney University Press

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