"It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them."

-- Jeremy Paxman

#Wish Quotes #May Quotes #Bears Quotes

“Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?”
“Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.”

Source : Democratic National Convention Address, originally delivered 8 July 1896 and later recorded in studio
“If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.”
“And I'll know my song well before I start singing”
“It's easy to be a tough competitor and still be the kind of person with whom people love to compete.”
“Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It's real singing, and it's what the Kop is all about.”
“Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing moral maturity right at the most primitive, most childish, stage: the fear of retribution-and fundamentalism threatens one hell of a spanking.”
“... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the fomentors of discord take a fierce exception to the Sermon on the Mount.”

Source : Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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