"I much prefer whining to counting my blessings."

-- Mary Ann Shaffer

#Blessing Quotes #Whining Quotes #Counting Quotes

“I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good, but at least it'll be good-looking. We'll have nice-looking girls in tight shirts with F.B.I. badges and fit-looking guys with lots of hair gel vaulting over things.'”
“The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.”
“When I first met him [David Beckham] I didn't know whether to shake his hand or lick his face.”
“The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.”
“I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.”
“Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.”
“...and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.”
“That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it, despite claims to the contrary by Mr. Holder and his allies. As more states adopt such laws, the left has railed against them with increasing fury, even invoking the specter of the Jim Crow era to describe electoral safeguards common to most nations, including in the Third World.”

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