"I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people."

-- Peter Jennings

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Cynical Quotes

“My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.”
“I look back and I look at all the opportunities that I've had to work really hard and really challenge myself, and I like to do things that scare me. I like to do things that I don't know if I'm going to be able to do. I need the help of talented people around me. I love that it's a collaboration.”
“Hope is a gift we give ourselves, and it remains when all else is gone.”
“The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.”
“God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.”
“Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2308, Delphi Classics
“About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.”
“They all looked like a shampoo commercial, healthy and clear-skinned, perfectly proportioned, a group of handsome young men. Their clothes hung on them like they were glad to be gracing such supermodels.”

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