"Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? And why don't women quickly succumb to them, without the need for all this skill and ingenuity in conquering them? For there is no need to go to war for a castle that is already captured."

-- Christine de Pizan

#War Quotes #Believe Quotes #Skills Quotes

“Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.”
“If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles?”

Source : Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (1982). “More joy of lex: an amazing and amusing Z to A and A to Z of words”, William Morrow & Co
“I saw a threat in Saddam Hussein. Members of the United States Congress from both political parties saw that same threat. The United Nation's saw the threat. I made the right decision in getting Saddam Hussein out of power.”
“Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.”
“Music was important. Football was the easy part.”
“I'm the straw that stirs the drink.”

Source : Reggie Jackson, Kevin Baker (2013). “Becoming Mr. October”, p.97, Anchor
“The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.”
“Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.”

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