"It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service."

-- Ulysses S. Grant

#Patriotic Quotes #Men Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.”
“I got into songwriting because I'm not very good at communicating sometimes, just my true words, so music was always my way of expressing myself and being able to put things into lyrics that I couldn't say necessarily in my everyday life.”
“Part of the role of a thought leader is not to necessarily have all the answers - I certainly don't - but it's to be able to ask the right questions and the privilege of being able to lead the conversation.”
“... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons; but he gave me much more valuable advice to start reading more difficult mathematical books on my own and to study them as diligently as I could; if I came across some obstacle or difficulty, I was given permission to visit him freely every Sunday afternoon and he kindly explained to me everything I could not understand ...”
“Nature is very un-American. Nature never hurries.”
“Recently a young journalist came to interview me about what I was doing the day war broke out. During the course of the interview I recounted the deaths of my only brother, my husband's only brother, a brother in law and my four best friends. "So," she said, did the war affect you in any way?”
“How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions.”
“Weather patterns over the next 20 or 30 years are going to be determined by the amount of CO2 that is up there now”

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