"Thank God for my hobgoblin, small-minded consistency..."

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Source : Kate Christensen (2009). “Trouble: A Novel”, p.32, Anchor

Kate Christensen

#Consistency Quotes #Thank God Quotes

“A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.”
“We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.”

Source : Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3
“I'll never forget where I came from, and that my home is forever Sweet Home Alabama!”
“Always educate yourself.”
“Las Vegas does have its fair share of males in the business. But the male sex trade is often more underground. There are escort services that specify in gay prostitution, although it may not be advertised for the public, but if you are a male calling for a male, or female calling for a female, you will get what you ask for as long as the money is right.”
“This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material goods because they have renounced the world and all its pleasures and even their own will. These are the ones who fatten their souls, enlarging them in the abyss of my charity. Then I become their spiritual provider. The Holy Spirit becomes their servant.”
“Majesty, I beg your forgiveness for the idignity you suffered and offer you the head of our enemy asâ€”" "Put that thing down," I said impatiently. "I can't talk to you when you're shaking his head like a damned maraca.”

Source : MaryJanice Davidson (2004). “Undead and Unwed: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.225, Penguin
“The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.”

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