"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."

-- John Updike

#Leadership Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.”

Source : Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press
“The quality of Moscow's hired killers had slipped since the KGB's glory days.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.”
“Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before”
“Don't it make my brown eyes blue?”

Source : Song: Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue, 1977
“I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.”
“A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp.....moreover, for the most part these "experts" have abandoned Darwinism, not on the basis of religious faith or biblical persuasions, but on strictly scientific grounds, and in some instances, regretfully.”
“When I was young and crazy, I was young and crazy. It can be hard enough just to BE in your teens and 20s. Then add fame, money, access, and every single person telling you that you're the greatest person who ever was, and it can be a recipe for disaster. Some people literally don't survive it.”

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