"A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion."

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Source : 'The Endless Adventure' (1930) vol. 1, pt. 1, ch. 20

Frederick Scott Oliver

#Wise Quotes #Opinion Quotes #Grudge Quotes

“I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of rhodods. with Pines below me as thick & bad to get through as our Fuegian Fagi on the hill tops, & except the towering peaks of P. S. that, here shoot up on all hands there is little difference in the mt sceneryÂ—here however the blaze of Rhod. flowers and various colored jungle proclaims a differently constituted region in a naturalists eye & twenty species here, to one there, always are asking me the vexed question, where do we come from?”
“Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.”
“Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy.”
“I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly or La Vie en Rose. And I love my role in Frantic.”
“Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?”
“I got all of my out-of-work time done in the years when I first came to L.A.!”
“I don't think it's realistic for someone to have an undying loyalty to everything you ever make.”

Source : Source: www.vanityfair.com
“Of course, Jesus was the most courageous man who ever lived. He prayed and asked God to take the cup from Him before He went to the cross, but He still went because He knew that's what He was supposed to do.”

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