"Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue."

-- Cato the Younger

#Tongue Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“The egos in this industry are incredibly vulnerable and everybody's afraid to wipe out. So everybody plays it safe and everybody tells everybody else how great they are.”
“Nothing is too beautiful, nothing is too expensive.”
“Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.”
“It was as if nothing quite erased the initial shock of being kissed by someone who was not hers, a kiss that was stolen, claimed from her flippantly, a kiss so abrasively illicit that she seemed to deserve it, as though she was not worth much to begin with.”

Source : Suki Kim (2004). “The Interpreter: A Novel”, p.53, Macmillan
“Too travel is sometimes better to arrive!”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 17, 2012
“I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.”

Source : On receiving Congressional Medal for Distinguished Civilian Achievement, April 23, 1956.
“I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talking to another person. If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grows out of it.”
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.”

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