"Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable."

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Source : Margaret Halsey (1944). “Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

Margaret Halsey

#Tolerance Quotes #Way Quotes #Assuming Quotes

“Keeping the commandments of God is not a difficult burden when we do it out of love of him who has so graciously blessed us.”
“I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am a mirror . . . Logic does not exist for me. I float on the waves of art and life and never really know how to distinguish what belongs to the one or the other or what is common to both. Life unfolds for me like a theatre presenting a sequence of somewhat unreal sentiments; while the things of art are real to me and go straight to my heart.”

Source : "Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations". Book by Bruno Monsaingeon, 2001.
“She's been on more laps than a napkin.”
“The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE”
“Preaching is truth set on fire.”
“If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.”
“I know they're not getting divorced or anything, but when your parents argue it makes the whole universe seem like it's tipping, like everything could change if they got mad enough at each other, like the world isn't a safe place. And of course, that's true, isn't it? The world is not a safe place.”
“Prepare now for the temple, the mountain of the Lord. Never allow the goal of the temple to be out of your sight. Walk into His presence in purity and virtue, and receive His blessingsâ€”even 'all that he hath.'”

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