"The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a salmon, drag him endlessly around the water until he loses his strength, pull him to the bank, hit him on the head with a stone, and you may well become fisherman of the year. Shoot.the salmon and you'll never be asked again."

-- Clement Freud

#Depressing Quotes #Animal Quotes #Years Quotes

“There is no question that policy makers, corporate leaders, pension consultants, and journalists too have to get out into the real world to at least see the pain of retirement woes before they start to prescribe policies and solutions.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Didn't you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked?”
“It is said that the offender never forgives. Certainly it is quite explicitly hard for the one in the wrong to do so. And it takes more spiritual asset than continued alcohol often leaves.”
“I want to welcome folks to poetry, especially those who may have previously felt unwelcome; I want to celebrate everyone who is trying to make sense of this world through poetry the way I try to.”
“When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose”

Source : Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.64, Macmillan
“I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. But, despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.”
“I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.”
“If not me- who?, If not now- when?”

Source : United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

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