"No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him."

-- Bud Flanagan

#Dog Quotes #Gambling Quotes

“After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she'd looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn't joking. He was warning her.”

Source : Louise Penny (2014). “The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.22, Macmillan
“London used to be reasonably priced, clean, and a decent place to live. These days it's polluted and utterly unbearable”

Source : The Business Magazine, 2006.
“If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone.”

Source : John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”
“In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.”
“I love the Internet, and I love wasting time on the Internet - even though it sometimes ends up being not being a waste of time.”
“Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?”
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”

Source : United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”
“ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.”

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