"[On Italy:] ... the country where kindness to strangers is a religion, you can't turn your head without seeing something beautiful, and you can't get a bad meal if you try."

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Source : Mary McGrory, Phil Gailey (2006). “The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary”, p.59, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Mary McGrory

#Beautiful Quotes #Country Quotes #Kindness Quotes

“To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.”
“The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.”
“Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.”
“It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.”
“In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.”
“Everyone has his besetting sin.”
“What's the deal with Ovaltine? It comes in a round container, you put it in a round glass, why don't they call it Roundtine?”
“One side of service is serving, but the other side is creating the space in oneself where the possibilities of giving one's best become feasible. If you let go of your own compulsion and greed the things you are conditioned into by your culture then the more archetypal, more universally valid, more human, more compassionate, wiser activities and thoughts can come to your mind and you can dedicate yourself to them more fully.”

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