"Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force."

-- William C. Bryant

#Mean Quotes #Self Quotes #Unhappy Quotes

“Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.”
“Who doesn’t have a polo shirt? Only somebody from, like, Lake Minnetonka.”
“Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life...”
“I love my mother. I do love her.”

Source : "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. November 11, 2005.
“The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.”

Source : James Joseph Sylvester (1870). “The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Together with an Annotated Reprint of the Inaugural Presidential Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter”, p.126
“A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the temporal lead him; he will not place his heart upon his farm, his horses, or any possession that he has. He will place his desires in heaven, and will anchor his hope in that eternal soil; and his temporal affairs will come up as he advances in the knowledge of God.”
“the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures.”

Source : Susanna Rowson (2015). “Charlotte Temple”, p.73, Sheba Blake Publishing
“You read reviews by top reviewers of films that not only had remarkably interesting scores, but films whose effectiveness was absolutely enhanced, and frequently created by the music, yet the reviewers seem unaware that their emotions and their nervous reactions to the films have been affected by the scoring. This is a serious flaw. Any film reviewer owes it to himself, and the public, to take every element of the film into account”

Source : "Music for the Movies". Book by Tony Thomas, p. 209, 1973.

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