"Those we dislike can do nothing to please us."

--

Source : Samuel Richardson (1990). “Clarissa, or, The history of a young lady: comprehending the most important concerns of private life”

Samuel Richardson

#Please Quotes #Dislike Quotes

“I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.”

Source : "The Confessions of Mike De Luca" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2011.
“You can see in my paintings, I've taken away the context, I've taken away the shadows, I've taken away expression, I've taken away the personal, and yet so much remains!”

Source : Source: www.artzip.org
“If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.”
“There is no better coach than the bench.”
“It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.”
“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”

Source : Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.117, Lexington Books
“If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. May 5, 2011.

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