"Hey, I can cook." "How do you know? You haven't eaten anything since before the Norman Conquest." "I've never had any complaints." "Given the infants you date, I'm not surprised. You could serve them sawdust and they'd eat it with a smile, dazzled by the swing of your broadsword." "What do you know about the swing of my broadsword?" "More than I care to. Women talk." Which shut him up, as he started wondering who'd said what."

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Source : Angela Knight (2011). “Master of Shadows”, p.67, Penguin

Angela Knight

#Swings Quotes #Hey Quotes #Sawdust Quotes

“If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.”
“The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.”

Source : Henry Clay, William Branch Giles (1827). “Mr. Clay's Speech on the Tariff: Or, The "American System," So Called ; Or, The Anglican System, in Fact, Introduced Here ; and Perverted in Its Most Material Bearing Upon Society, by the Omission of a System of Corn Laws, for the Protection of Agriculture”, p.80
“I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that's surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens.”
“Let us never forget that authentic power is service, which has its radiant culmination on the Cross.”
“It's important to have girlfriends, because guys tend to come and go.”
“And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.”
“If ***** kills all my brain cells, then how come I can still hear them all talking to me?”
“It was obvious uh, that uh, the situation in Vietnam was far from stable in 1964 and that there, if in fact the United States was going to uh carry out its declared intent to uh, do its best to prevent uh, a Communist overrun of South Vietnam, uh, there would be at least hard choices to make, and there might be a choice for uh, stronger action.”

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