"I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy."

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Christine Quinn

#Done Quotes #Way Quotes #Facts Quotes

“I've got a good Barbarians squad including Australian backs who have played together. Gavin Henson would make a fool of himself if he was way off the pace. Not having made a tackle or played a game for so long beforehand would be a disadvantage. It would be ideal if he has a couple of games first, but who with?”
“Jim (Henson) should have ****inÂ¿ fired me several times...”
“In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.”
“The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.”

Source : Henry Maudsley (1895). “The Pathology of Mind”
“in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.”
“The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.”
“When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears Gathering around it with erected ears; A thousand names are toss'd into the crowd, Some whisper'd softly, and some twang'd aloud, Just as the sapience of an author's brain, Suggests it safe or dangerous to be plain.”
“All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”

Source : James Thurber (1978). “Further fables for our time”, Simon & Schuster

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