"If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag."

-- Ben Webster

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Gun Quotes

“Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man's losing control of the tremendous natural forces at his disposal and becoming the victim of his own achievements.”
“The first care of every Christian ought to be to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more and more, and by it grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus, who has suffered and risen again for him.”
“All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.”
“Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.”
“Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.”

Source : Pleasures of Hope pt. 1, l. 7 (1799).
“Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.”

Source : Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.644, Library of America
“..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.”
“In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.”

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