"I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it."

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Source : Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: Wonder and the supernatural”

Lady Gregory

#Country Quotes #Running Quotes #Foxes Quotes

“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.”

Source : "An introduction to permaculture". Book by Bill Mollison, 1991.
“I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.”
“I want to keep my fan base supplied with a steady chain of music.”
“It's headed away by John Clark, using his head.”
“Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.”
“I am not the world's most confident person.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And I found the theater, and I found my home.”
“All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.”

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