"Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness."

-- Lionel Johnson

#Years Quotes #Library Quotes #Needs Quotes

“If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.”
“Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.”
“Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.”
“I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither.... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.”
“Forget your pain. It was what I said when I took Father's hand in the drawing room yesterday, what I repeated again tonight. But I didn't mean this. I must be careful. Yet what bothers me isn't the power of the magic or how, to a person, they've all accepted it as truth. No, what unsettles me the most is how much I want to believe it too.”
“. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.”

Source : Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.44, Harper Collins
“When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.”
“For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.”

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