"What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people."

-- Dodie Smith

#Friendship Quotes #People Quotes #Want Quotes

“I've said I want the meanest, toughest SOB I can find to protect America. And so that's why Trump's tone doesn't bother me.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.”
“Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.”
“Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man annihilate the passions he has given him, God would bid him be and not be; He would contradict himself. He has never given such a foolish commandment, there is nothing like it written on the heart of man, and what God will have a man do, He does not leave to the words of another man. He speaks Himself; His words are written in the secret heart.”
“We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over.”
“Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.”
“Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2016). “King Solomon's Mines”, p.240, Oxford University Press
“There are many ways to be influential. You can work for politicians or in government and make a difference. And for young women who are interested in running for office, you just have to decide you're going to follow Eleanor Roosevelt's maxim about growing skin as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros, and you have to be incredibly well-prepared - better prepared [than a man], actually - and you have to figure out how you're going to present yourself, and you have to have a support group around you, because it can be really a brutal experience.”

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