"When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession."

-- Rachel Billington

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Hobbies Quotes

“My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.”

Source : Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.260, Macmillan
“In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.”

Source : "Pat Summerall: Gridiron, God, and Graham". Interview With Andrew Knox, www.cbn.com.
“If you want to succeed in business in any capacity - employee, manager, or owner - you must have a solid, comprehensive understanding of what business principles actually are and how they actually work.”
“Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.”
“Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.”

Source : "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Part II-II, Question 188), 1485.
“someday you might be sad, when you might wish to talk to me but i might not able to do so”
“We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Only weak men want women to be weak.”

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