"There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion."

-- Thomas Sherlock

#Passion Quotes #Disputes Quotes #Controversy Quotes

“The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.”
“Knowledge gives a wider choice and more anguish.”
“Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.”

Source : "The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations" by Ned Sherrin, 1995.
“People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.”
“There's only two kinds of music I don't like....Country and Western.”
“No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a magic key to an easy existence. Somehow life manages to bring difficult problems, the causes of untold suffering and struggle. How you meet your challenges makes all the difference between the promise of success and the specter of failure.”
“I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.”
“When I'm writing I get easily bored.”

Source : "Herman Koch Gets Meta In 'Dear Mr. M'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 28, 2016.

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