"It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them."

-- Frederick Locker-Lampson

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Arguably there's no school for any high position of leadership. That said, Theodore Roosevelt was remarkably well prepared for the presidency. He had held executive positions in the military, in local government, in the federal government.”
“I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.”
“I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.”
“Besides re-arming myself with joy, I need to know the holes in my defenses, the places where I'm vulnerable and where the enemy has successfully attacked me before.”

Source : Lynn Austin (2013). “Pilgrimage: My Journey to a Deeper Faith in the Land Where Jesus Walked”, p.19, Baker Books
“Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.”
“All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.”
“During my seven-year contract with RKO, there were seven different studio presidents, from David O. Selznick to Charles W. Koerner. You literally had to check the name on the door so as not to call the new boss by the former boss's name.”
“Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.”

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