"Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself â€“ your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose â€“ they want to keep you down."

-- Robert Greene

#People Quotes #Political Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“I think excessive rationality can be very dangerous. Certainly the kind of rationality we've seen in the last hundred years, and still see on a daily basis when Madeleine Albright says that it's all right, we have to live with the idea of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dying because it contains Saddam Hussein.”
“I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or subway station, heads touching while they sit on a park bench, and I ache to hear the song that plays between them: The stirring chords of romance's first bloom, the stately airs that whisper between a couple long in love. You can see it in the way they look at each other... you can almost hear it. Almost, but not quite, because the music belongs to them and all you can have of it is a vague echo that rises up from the bittersweet murmur and shuffle of your own memories.”
“I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.”

Source : "Wyoming's Senator Wallop Won't Run in '94", www.nytimes.com. 1993.
“Someday, when in the presence of our Savior, we will thank Him for every burden, every trial, and every heartache.”

Source : J. Vernon McGee (1994). “On Comfort: Words of Hope for the Hurting”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated
“Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.”

Source : Alex Orbison, Roy Orbison, Wesley Orbison (2017). “The Authorized Roy Orbison: The Authorized Biography”, p.643, Hachette UK
“Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.”

Source : "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.
“Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again. "So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...”
“I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25.”

Source : 1986 'Triolet'. 0 See Lamb 486:25.

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