"It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents."

-- Lord Chesterfield

#Sight Quotes #People Quotes #Favors Quotes

“Is it really so important to be different?”
“Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped.”
“Be cautious and bold.”
“Let the historic dissection begin. Man-made global warming is a dying market and a zombie science.”
“Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.”
“He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naÃ¯vetÃ© and idealism; when young men skilled at the crafts of violence could be manipulated into employing those skills with brutal efficiency--and without questions.”
“Children are like a mirror. They help you see yourself and all the flaws that you and your partner might have avoided looking at earlier.”
“I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in her brain an ideal of manhood. ... He never is finished till the brain of his creator ceases to work, till she has added her last touch to him, and has laid down the burden of life and gone elsewhere, perhaps to some happy land where ideals are more frequently realised than ever happens here.”

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