"I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect."

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Sophocles

#Reality Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.”
“Vishous: "...we both would slaughter anything that so much as startled you." Jane: "I'm scared of mice and spiders. But you don't need to use that gun on your hip to blow a hole in a wall if I ran into one, okay? Havaheart traps and rolled newspapers work just as well. Plus, you don't need a Sheetrock patch and plaster job afterward. I'm just saying.”
“How can I know who's PM or in government in Sweden? It's been 40 years since I moved abroad! Oh!”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I can't remember the exact quote but when I used to trade and Mr. Volcker was Fed chairman, he said something like 'gold is my enemy, I'm always watching what gold is doing', we need to think why he made a statement like that. If you're a central banker or one of the congressmen or senators, watch what gold is doing because this is a no-confidence vote in fiscal and dollar policy.”
“The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.”
“The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.”

Source : "What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West". Book by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2004.
“Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.”
“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”

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