"Every knock is a boost."

-- Elbert Hubbard

#Life Quotes #Boost Quotes

“I have spoken to plants myself, and if pressed for conclusions would have to say that those I threatened did better than those I - well, I wouldn't say prayed over, but pleaded with, cajoled. A rhododendron that hadn't bloomed for six years was flatly told it would be removed the following year if there were no flowers. Need I say that it has bloomed profusely ever since?”
“You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.”
“Extensions is you suddenly have long hair when you have short hair, and you can sleep with it and you have it forever, as long as you want to.”
“Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! what store of riches it imparts!”
“At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.”
“The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns; The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown, And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort, And mar the face of beauty, when no cause For such immeasurable woe appears; These Flora banishes, and gives the fair Sweet smiles, and bloom less transient than her own.”
“This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.”
“The military mind tends to be conservative, realistic and historical. The civilian mind tends to be liberal, idealistic and Utopian. Journalists, obviously, are civilians, and they tend to distrust, and to suspect, the military's motives.”

Source : "Rumsfeld’s Spy Unit". "To the Point" with Warren Olney, NPR, markriebling.blogs.com. October 31, 2002.

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