"Modesty is policy, no less than virtue."

-- William Gilmore Simms

#Modesty Quotes #Virtue Quotes #Policy Quotes

“I don't really know much about the fashion world. I have a few stylist friends that help me find stuff. So they know all about the vintage fashion world; I just kind of describe to them what I want and they find a lot of it for me.”
“If we're 15 minutes into a lifeless, redundant, status-based 1:1 and I don't have anything sitting in my back pocket, I'm going to turn it into a performance review.”
“Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.”
“I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.”
“the beast is the monster that destroys your dream”
“He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.”
“Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by â€˜the enemyâ€™, and from which oneâ€™s own acts of destruction are exempted. It is an inchoate and emotionally laden concept, a semantic mirror of our dishonesty and a repository for everything about war that we would like to disavow. Making a sharp distinction between war and terrorism is at best a self-deceptive game.”
“I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.”

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