"My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up."

-- Donald E. Westlake

#Mother Quotes #Superstitions Quotes #Made Quotes

“If we wait for conditions to go from good to perfect, we'll just be waiting, waiting, waiting.”
“Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.”
“We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose peace and tranquillity the workers of Germany and China were sacrificed to Fascist barbarians by Stalin. We want revolution here in Spain, right now, not maybe after the next European war. We are giving Hitler and Mussolini far more worry with our revolution than the whole Red Army of Russia. We are setting an example to the German and Italian working class on how to deal with Fascism.”

Source : The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.
“The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.”

Source : Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”
“You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.”
“The real essence of work is concentrated energy.”
“Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.”
“I started out as a young Ninja and killed all of the Shoguns. I am a Shogun now and I'm holding my spot. There probably won't be another Shogun after this.”

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