"It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Government Quotes #Effort Quotes #Sloth Quotes

“When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story.”
“Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.”
“What are men? Children who doubt.”
“Sports taught me how to compete on the court, and taught me how to compete in life. Sports and life run parallel with one another.”
“Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.”

Source : Anthony Horowitz (2011). “The House of Silk: The Bestselling Sherlock Holmes Novel”, p.43, Hachette UK
“We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to the inner world.”
“My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.”
“And for just a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.”

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