"Keep my word' is such a strange expression. At first glance, it just means 'Be true to what you agreed on. But it could also mean, 'Hold your words back.' Keep them in. Let your actions speak instead."

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Source : Peter Gould (2008). “Write Naked”, p.149, Macmillan

Peter Gould

#Mean Quotes #Expression Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come to read together and learn together. We should take our kids there more.”
“The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.”
“The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.”
“The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.”
“Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.”

Source : Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”
“Do not trouble yourself for your brethren, for we have already provided lands for them, which they shall possess forever.”
“I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.”
“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.”

Source : Pope John Paul II (1999). “Celebrate the Third Millennium!: Facing the Future with Hope”, Servant Publications

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