"Metaphor... is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight."

-- Laura Riding

#Mother Quotes #Sight Quotes #Expression Quotes

“A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.”

Source : "The Harvard Business Review" Magazine, November 1, 1986.
“My plan is to govern as long as I can.”
“Frustration is the mother of risk.”
“Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do”

Source : FaceBook post by June Hunt from Sep 29, 2014
“The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromise.”

Source : The Washington Post, March 29, 1970.
“I used to be someone who would not even tread on an ant. But this is a war for honor and self-defense. A 100 percent elimination policy (by Ankara of the Kurds) has forced me to defense and it has become a glorious defense of a people.”
“It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them.”

Source : Havilah Babcock (2016). “My Health is Better in November: Thirty-Five Stories of Hunting and Fishing in the South”, p.26, Pickle Partners Publishing
“I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.”

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