"I tend to cut David Brooks more slack than most people I know do, and I do it for one main reason. He can write. He's the best writer on that page, and I'd usually rather read him than others on that page I'm more likely to agree with."

-- Michael Tomasky

#Writing Quotes #Cutting Quotes #People Quotes

“You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.”
“When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness.”
“It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.”
“Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.”

Source : "Jason Sudeikis Checks in: 'I'm a Lefty From Kansas!'". Interview with Hampton Stevens, www.espn.com. August 19, 2008.
“I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.”
“In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.”
“Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!”
“For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.”

Source : Randy Alcorn (2012). “Eternal Perspectives: A Collection of Quotations on Heaven, the New Earth, and Life after Death”, p.84, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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