"Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character."

-- Jonathan Swift

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Talking Quotes

“I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment.”
“How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.”
“Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.”

Source : Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.77, Hachette UK
“As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The young think about how they'll change the world, the old think about how the world has changed.”
“To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”
“Hold yourself on your own. A man's job in a romantic dynamic is not to be your butler, bank account or your father.”

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