"The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted."

-- Edmund White

#Winning Quotes #Might Quotes #Able Quotes

“The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.”
“Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians in municipalities and counties. They let the people suffer, but let themselves go free.”

Source : Source: www.aims.ca
“Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledgeâ€¦. But the obverse is also true. We can have thrust upon us a false picture of reality as distorting as the trick mirrors in a Coney Island funhouse.”
“what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.”

Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
“A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created.”
“The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.”
“My pictures really finish themselves.”
“My favorite thing about coaching? Teaching. Being around young people, just watching a player grow and develop. You know, a young man comes in with dreams and goals and ambitions and just helping him reach (them). It's like your dad watching you grow up and like me watching my boys grow.”

Source : "Noah's interview with Coach Tubby Smith". Woodbury Interview, www.woodburybulletin.com. July 18, 2007.

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