"Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!"

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Source : Joaquin Miller (1871). “Songs of the Sierras”, p.107

Joaquin Miller

#Lying Quotes #Men Quotes #Coward Quotes

“The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts in the fall and scold all year long; bobcats track the snowy lake in winter; deer browse the willow shoots in spring. Humans are but intruders who have presumed the right to be observers, and who, out of observation, find understanding.”

Source : Ann Zwinger (1970). “Beyond the Aspen Grove”, p.9, Big Earth Publishing
“The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.”
“You come out of a working-class environment, you know, working-class kids always put them themselves together because it's one of the only things they had. You had control of your image.”
“On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.”
“In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being "soft on Basques.”

Source : Mark Kurlansky (2010). “The Basque History of the World”, p.294, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.”
“The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech of cartoon and the baptism of blood mock its liturgies and sacraments. Its gentle beatitudes would hardly serve as mottoes for defiant banners, nor its list of graces as names for ships-of-the-line.”
“I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.”

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