"The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' `What if those who do not do as you do are gunning you down?' I said.... Alaska frowned. `Guns are intolerant. Guns are a failure of communication."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Communication Quotes #Gun Quotes #Alaska Quotes

“I grill, therefore I am.”
“There was this point about, you know, the basic point there as well - this statute treats some parts of the country different from others, and what's the justification for that? Well, you know, I had eight million things to say about that, but he put it in such a sharp, excruciating way that it was just very hard to handle it effectively.”

Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.
“Accidents can happen at any time.”

Source : Source: www.sbnation.com
“We can't depend on consumers to spend money they don't have on stuff they don't need, so the government has to do it for them”
“As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.”
“Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.”
“Trust in God. Do your duty. Remember your prayers. Get faith in the Lord, and take hold and build up Zion. All will be right.”

Source : Wilford Woodruff (1946). “The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff”

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