"I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have."

-- Susan Powter

#Scared Quotes #Telling The Truth Quotes #Authority Quotes

“Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.”

Source : Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”
“In a country as large and diverse as America, compromise is how we get things done. It isn't always pretty, but we have to find solutions to our problems that, at the end of the day, most people can live with.”

Source : "Interview: Henrik Fisker talks new companies, the future of car design and ... minivans". Interview with C.C. Weiss, newatlas.com. December 24, 2016.
“I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.”
“All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best”

Source : O. Henry (1953). “The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.]”
“A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.”
“It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits.”

Source : Patricia Marx (2008). “Him Her Him Again The End of Him”, p.41, Simon and Schuster
“There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.”
“Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too-appropriate order to assume leadership of the forces of stupidity he has marshalled, or his enemies will unmask him in order to better understand the disease that has produced such a warped and twisted mind.”

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