"Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal."

-- Christopher Buckley

#Reading Quotes #Men Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I'm just saying -- you can't prevent other people from disappointing you. It's bound to happen at some point. We're all only human. What you can do is decide how you're going to deal with it.”
“The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.”

Source : Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.111, Univ of California Press
“And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.”

Source : Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress”, p.312, Del Rey
“That she bear children is not a woman's significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate.”
“Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.”
“The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.”

Source : "Afganistan's Hamid Karzai". Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2003.
“If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.”
“In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.”

Source : "'Papadaddy' Clyde Edgerton advises other 'older dads'". Interview with Bob Minzesheimer, www.usatoday.com. June 12, 2013.

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