"Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught."

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Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

Brooks Atkinson

#Guilt Quotes #Daily Life Quotes #Shame Quotes

“Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.”
“He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.”

Source : Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1840). “Georgia scenes: characters, incidents, in the first half century of the republic”, p.24
“They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.”

Source : John Millington Synge, Ann Saddlemyer (1998). “Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA
“I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.”

Source : "The Sports Factor" with Amanda Smith, www.abc.net.au. June 8, 2001.
“Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.”
“Putin knows how to run the KGB playbook. I mean, he knows how to work people.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“At the end of the day, it's all about how you were raised and your perspective. It's all about if you want to win. If you don't want to win anymore, then you can't win. If you're not in the game, you can't win the game. If you give up, let it be your perspective. I've been taught long ago that I'll never be nothing.”
“You can always make time to do the thing you want to do, if you want it enough.”

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