"America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner."

-- Max Lerner

#Men Quotes #Ideas Quotes #America Quotes

“I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy. But I'm not concerned with politicians and what they think. And I'm not always going to succeed. I'll have missteps, but I hope that people will be patient with the show and us and know that our intentions are good.”
“Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.”
“The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.”

Source : "Hellsing". Manga series by Kouta Hirano, 1997 - September 30, 2008.
“If someone asks me a question it is very difficult not to answer honestly”

Source : "People thought I was a freak. I kind of liked that" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2008.
“Happy belated birthday, Cat," he said, giving me a self-deprecating smile. "Aren't you glad Juan picked the place and not me? We wold have had lattes and hors d'oeuvres instead of liquor and G-strings. Anyone get you a gin yet?”
“Conservatives have woken up to the fact they weren`t part of their team and they have a capability of having the kind of message that [Donald] Trump is delivering reach them on a very direct and very personal level so that they sign up. They are willing to go out there and work for him.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?”
“He had once found himself in a room with Lady Bessborough's long-haired white cat. He happened to be dressed in an immaculate black coat and trousers, and was there thoroughly alarmed by the cat's stalking round and round and making motions as if it proposed to sit upon him. He waited until he believed himself to be unobserved, then he picked it up, opened a window, and tossed it out. Despite falling three storeys to the ground, the cat survived, but one of its legs was never quite right afterward and it always evinced the greatest dislike of gentlemen in black clothes.”

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