"I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being surprised by the extreme, marvelous qualities of a small minority of men. But I can't see the rest of them. They seem awful rubbish."

-- Rebecca West

#Men Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Quality Quotes

“Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.”

Source : "Books: 'A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton'". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. June 8, 2007.
“I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Donald Trump has filed so many bankruptcies and busted so many companies that his children now have receding heir lines.”
“Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.”
“There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.”
“Eid is not for the one who wears #new clothes. Eid is for the one whose obedience rises. Eid is not for the one with beautiful clothes and fine means of transport, Eid is for the one whose sins are forgiven.”
“I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.”
“For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.”

Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson, James P. Carley (1990). “Edwin Arlington Robinson”, p.319, Boydell & Brewer

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