"Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet."

-- Jerome K. Jerome

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“She lies about her age and weight and is slightly older than Rocket. But they've been a couple for eight years, longer than most in Hollywood.”
“...at times, the greatest courage of all is to live.”
“I remember when I took the role on E.R., I thought, 'I haven't really been able to play a working class woman. I've played girls, I've played funny, but I haven't played a working class woman. That sounds like something I'd like to do.”
“Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong! Tell me, O Lord--tell me, O Lord, how long Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!”

Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson (1966). “Selected poems”
“Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that.”
“I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.”
“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”
“In a democracy, it is the people who are sovereign. Therefore, with regard to the promotion of democracy at the local, country and regional levels, civil society must have a stronger voice in all political processes.”

Source : "Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas". July 01, 2013.

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