"I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private."

-- David Blunkett

#Thinking Quotes #Done Quotes #Said Quotes

“You don't have to explain yourself. Let your weakness be yours. Let your strength be everybody's. You understand the principle?”
“Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.”

Source : Leif Enger (2009). “So Brave, Young, and Handsome: A Novel”, p.287, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.
“The rich are always enamored of the ancient.”
“My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, for all the science and sport involved in it.”
“It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.”

Source : Carol Anshaw, Merrill Maguire Skaggs (2012). “Aquamarine”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Today government touches everything in America and harms almost everything it touches. Federal, state, and local governments together spend 42 out of every 100 dollars we earn. Those who do the taxing and spending have long since ceased to work for the people as a whole. Rather, they work for themselves and for their clients-the education industry, the welfare culture, public-employee unions, etc..”
“Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.”

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