"The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#Thinking Quotes #Freedom Of Speech Quotes #May Quotes

“As far as expense, I think if 'Twilight' does well enough, then we should be able to do the big expensive stuff for the sequels. I mean, we have to have werewolves, there's no way around it. They have to be there.”
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.”
“Tim Thomas is about excuses. It's always somebody else's fault. He said I was jealous? He should thank me for helping him get that contract. He said I didn't show? They traded me, they traded Ray, they traded Big Dog [Robinson] and Tim Thomas still wasn't the man on that team. Michael Redd became the man there. I think I'm doing quite well for myself here. Right now, he needs to focus on his game. Right now, he's not a good basketball player. And I like Tim Thomas. He just has too many damn excuses.”
“If you think that you are less than them, can you blame them for thinking they are better?”

Source : Iain Lawrence (2002). “Ghost Boy”, p.331, Laurel Leaf
“Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy”

Source : Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”
“Donald Trump seems to prefer people he sees as being on his side.”
“I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.”
“We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.”

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