". . . everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself."

-- Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

#May Quotes #Wells Quotes #Seems Quotes

“[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.”

Source : "A plague on the Wall Street casinos" by Diane Francis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2008.
“She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley.”
“We just can't let the Lord down. And if the day comes when we are the only women on earth who find nobility and divinity in motherhood, so be it. For mother is the word that will define a righteous woman made perfect in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom, a woman who has qualified for eternal increase in posterity, wisdom, joy, and influence.”
“The Jews who already have been ousted were put out because they were morally and politically unfit to safeguard German interests.”

Source : "The Riot at Christie Pits" by Cyril Levitt, William Shaffir, (p. 61), 1987.
“I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.”
“Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.”
“Every good soldier wants to live in an organized environment, secure in the knowledge that he or she will not be threatened or harassed by others, confident that his or her efforts will be recognized, and aware that the nonproductive soldier will be invited to leave. In such an environment, soldiers will be proud of their units and will demonstrate that pride with their performance and behavior.”
“Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately and yell at the people nestling deep in the snug softness, stuffing themselves with delicious food and drink. 'Ladies and Gentlemen,' they yell, 'we are floating in space!' But none of the people down there care”

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