"The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters."

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Source : Alan Bennett (2008). “Writing Home”, p.151, Faber & Faber

Alan Bennett

#Sunday Quotes #People Quotes #Majority Quotes

“No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven.”
“Anyone who has dead straight hair wants curls.”
“Baby wipes are great for everything! For wiping babies' butts, as an eye-makeup remover, to wipe the counter, to clean my hands at the airport, just everything.”
“Whether you're talking about bees, dogs, or women, pain can come upon you quickly from either one of em.”
“Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.”
“Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Research now seems to indicate that one hour of inner action is worth seven hours of out-in-the-worl d action. Think about that. You're working too hard.”
“Chuchill has renounced all British interests in Europe and those of his people who are not blind now realise that the pretext for this war was far removed from the cause of it, namely, the subservience of the so-called democratic politicians to their Jewish masters.”

Source : Broadcast on Radio Cologne, August 30, 1944.

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