"To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says."

-- D. H. Lawrence

#Puritan Quotes

“Innovation accelerates and compounds.”
“Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup.”
“I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.”
“The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.”
“If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.”
“All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.”
“I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.”
“When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.”

Source : "Pauline Neville-Jones: 'Some say I didn't make it easy on myself'". Interview with Nick Hopkins, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2011.

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