"There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash."

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Agatha Christie

#Energy Quotes #Whiplash Quotes #Hung Quotes

“The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.”
“Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras. . . . As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.”
“See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.”
“I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.”
“I do not know of any divine commands. I do know of most important human ones. I do not know the needs of a god or of another world. . . . I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one. I do know that the needs of humanity and this world are infinite unending constant and immediate. They will take all our time our strength our love and our thoughts; and our work here will be only then begun.”
“Once we decide we have to do something, we can go miles ahead.”
“No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.”
“Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.”

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