"Louers be war and tak gude heid about Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine. I lat yow wit, thair is richt few thairout Quhome ye may traist to haue trew lufe agane."

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Source : c.1470 The Testament of Cresseid, l.561-4.

Robert Henryson

#War Quotes #Suffering Quotes #May Quotes

“Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.”
“The thing that is different I think from the years ago, when I was covering the shutdown at the Clinton White House. Then, it was a different political landscape. At that point, a third of House Republicans in the 1995 shutdown were in congressional districts that had been won by Bill Clinton. 7 percent of House Republicans are in congressional districts that were won by Barack Obama shows you how much more partisan the whole country is. A lot of the bridges that used to be used to reach a deal when you needed to reach a compromise have been blown up in the past years.”
“I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.”
“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”

Source : Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.748, NYU Press
“The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.”
“Iâ€™m in a band. I donâ€™t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. Iâ€™m obsessed with horror films. I know what shame feels like. And guess what old man? Jesus is still my Savior.”
“You would think that everyone would leap at the chance to get rid of sin. Not so. They want relief not a cure.”
“There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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