"When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose the most impressive argument. When the mark is shrouded in obscurity, the only substitute for accuracy in the aim is in the multitude of the shafts."

-- John Quincy Adams

#Real Quotes #Weakness Quotes #Obscurity Quotes

“English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.”

Source : Jane Gardam (2007). “The People on Privilege Hill and Other Stories”, Random House
“I have a little brother. He's actually living at my house right now. He's going to be 18.”
“So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.”
“Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed tree, but if not, that tree is but dried-up wood, and shall only feed the fire”
“The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point.”
“As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.”
“Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!”
“Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.”

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