"Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it."

-- Ambrose Bierce

#Crazy Quotes #Pride Quotes #Men Quotes

“The structure that is currently in place, inside government, forcing government employees to pay union dues, even if they don't want to be in a union -- that is fundamentally unconstitutional and it is against the American system of freedom of choice.”
“I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life.”
“Nothing made you feel so useless as another person's grief.”
“I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.”
“I grew up on Shane movie and my mother loves it and I've watched it hundreds of times.”
“I had been really obsessed with Jonestown for a long time - many years - and had read everything there was to read about it, seen all the footage and the documentaries. I found it really chilling in a personal way - the question of people submitting all their personal power and agency and independent thought it the name of a group or ideology. I could not find a way to write about it directly that didn't feel too heavy.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2008.
“I recognize no empire of this present age.”

You may also like: