"Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold."

-- Thomas Jefferson

#Pride Quotes #Cost Quotes #Cold Quotes

“We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.”
“My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know â€¦ I donâ€™t really want to get into it, but my mother was sicker than my father. And my motherâ€™s alive. My motherâ€™s fine, OK? I remember going to the hospital to see my mother and wondering, â€˜Was I in the right place?â€™ Like, this was a hotel. Like it had a concierge, man. If the average person really knew the discrepancy in the health care system, thereâ€™d be riots in the streets, OK? They would burn this m-therfâ€”ker down!”
“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”
“I want to be the best on the biggest stage possible, [but] I obviously do not get to decide where that is.”
“Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.”
“Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.”
“The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.”
“The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.”

Source : Some Economic Factors in Modern Life ch. 8 (1929)

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