"As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation."

-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Manners Quotes

“The first thing the secretary types is the boss.”
“The vineyard country, russet, reddish, carmine-brown in this season. A blue outline of hills above a fertile valley. It's warm as long as the sun does not set, in the shade cold returns. A strong sauna and then swimming in a pool surrounded by trees. Dark redwoods, transparent pale-leved birches. In their delicate network, a sliver of the moon. I describe this for I have learned to doubt philosophy And the visible world is all that remains.”
“Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious council. It's the only place in the world where the last six elections have been won by the more progressive candidate, two for president, two for the mayors, two for the parliament. So most people there are sympathetic to the world we Americans want to build, whether we're Republicans or Democrats. On the other hand, almost everybody there wants them to have nuclear power. They see it as a status symbol, and a sense of their own security.”
“I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.”
“My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.”
“The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.”
“The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.”
“My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.”

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