"I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives."

-- Ron Chernow

#Strong Quotes #Angry Quotes #Relative Quotes

“They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.”
“It is always advisable to obtain a mantra from a self-realized master. Until then we may use one of the mantras of our beloved deity like 'Om Namah Shivaya', 'Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya', 'Om Namo Narayanaya', 'Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare, Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare', 'Om Shivashaktyaikya Rupinyai Namaha' or even the names of Christ, Allah or Buddha.”
“You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I donâ€™t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.”
“Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.”
“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.”

Source : Tunnel of Love (1954) ch. 8
“Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task.... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules.”

Source : Sarah Fielding, Christopher D. Johnson (1757). “The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia”, p.33, Bucknell University Press
“Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichÃ©s, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.”
“Not expecting someone to measure up is an insult”

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