"You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious."

-- Frances Hodgson Burnett

#Springtime Quotes #Curious Quotes #Easier Quotes

“Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?”
“What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligence. The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking.”

Source : "The Internet Will Make You Smarter, Say Experts". www.reuters.com. February 20, 2010.
“I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off”

Source : "An Interview with Sean Astin". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 18, 2002.
“Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business; the trailer seldom goes far.”
“The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”

Source : Speech in New Orleans, 19 October 1969, in 'Frankly Speaking' (1970) ch. 3
“I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.”
“I think the Russians need to think more carefully about the commitment they made under the chemical weapons agreements to be the guarantor that these weapons would be seized, they would be removed, they would be destroyed. And since they are Bashar al-Assad's ally, they would have the closest insight as to the compliance.”

Source : "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. April 9, 2017.
“Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”

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