"Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience."

-- Thomas Perry

#Patience Quotes #Reading Quotes #Character Quotes

“The man wannabe actually...a wannabe. David Haye's a wannabe.”
“Better to have something to say than to have to say something.”
“Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating. Love is beyond the mind because it is always new. Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old. So the mind is a modifier, a reactor; a renovator, but it cannot create the new.”
“You are going to tell me what I want to know, it's just a matter of how much you want it to hurt.”
“Remember that all tax revenue is the result of holding a gun to somebody's head. Not paying taxes is against the law. If you don't pay your taxes, you'll be fined. If you don't pay the fine, you'll be jailed. If you try to escape from jail, you'll be shot. ... Therefore, every time the government spends money on anything, you have to ask yourself, 'Would I kill my kindly, gray-haired mother for this?'”
“I believe truly that Canada is a living history and we're going through some of the most important time in this country's short 150 years.”

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“The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.”
“If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it's late at night, I'm walking to the other side of the street. And if on that side of the street, there's a guy that has tattoos all over his face, white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere, I'm walking back to the other side of the street, and the list goes on of stereotypes that we all live up to and are fearful of.”

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