"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Change Quotes #Integrity Quotes #Roots Quotes

“When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job.”
“People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.”
“When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.”
“Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves. Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.”
“First book was handwritten, then the printing press, now we've got our Kindles. To be able to push a button and a dictionary comes up. And then, at my age, that I can make the letters any size I want, and that I can carry all of William Shakespeare, all of Gogol, all of Franz Kafka in my handbag? You've got to love it.”
“The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primeval solitude would be like talking in church.”

Source : Jim Fergus (2005). “The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
“The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.”

Source : Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin
“The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.”

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