"And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves."

-- Betty Smith

#Self Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“What is it that you think about just before you get a condom? Sex!”
“History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.”
“Senator McGovern is very sincere when he says that he will try to cut the military budget by 30%. And this is to drive a knife in the heart of Israel... Jews don't like big military budgets. But it is now an interest of the Jews to have a large and powerful military establishment in the United States... American Jews who care about the survival of the state of Israel have to say, no, we don't want to cut the military budget, it is important to keep that military budget big, so that we can defend Israel.”

Source : "Congress Bi-Weekly". Book published by the American Jewish Congress, 1973.
“I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.”
“There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.”
“I love beating the men. When I beat 'em in the ratings, when I beat 'em in the salary, I always say, 'One more for the girls.”
“In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.”

Source : Gertrude Jekyll (1913). “Wall and Water Gardens: With Chapters on the Rock-garden and the Heath-garden”
“A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.”

Source : Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.94, Oneworld Publications

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