"If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause."

-- Wendell Phillips

#Firsts Quotes #Causes Quotes #Want Quotes

“Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.”

Source : Duff Cooper (2011). “Old Men Forget”, p.56, Faber & Faber
“We're talking about a world where the PC is no longer the center, but just a devicewhere your new devices need to be more portable, more personal.”
“Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.”
“The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good.”
“Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.”
“My plea...is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children need sunlight...They need kindness and refreshment and affection. Every home, regardless of the cost of the house, can provide an environment of love which will be an environment of salvation.”
“I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“With every mistake, we must surely be learning.”

Source : Song: While My Guitar Gently Weeps Acoustic Version

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