"Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American."

-- Charlaine Harris

#Classic Quotes #Said Quotes #Direct Quotes

“When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed forth to rally under the banner they loved, with grand singleness of purpose and heroic devotion--leaving all behind them, to meet toil and danger, hunger, sickness, wounds, and death, for nothing but the sublime satisfaction of doing their duty to their country and to mankind.”
“I never forget,â€ Myrnin said in a choked whisper. â€œCertainly not with your nails in my throat. Theyâ€™re quite an excellent mnemonic device.”
“I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.”
“Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago?”
“It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.”
“All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.”
“A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.”

Source : Benjamin A. Rogge (1979). “Can Capitalism Survive?”, Liberty Fund
“I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.”

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