"No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it."

-- Millicent Fawcett

#Effort Quotes #Growth Quotes #Style Quotes

“Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks, we've got to throw bigger rocks”
“It (nursing) comes more from care than study.”

Source : Johanna Spyri (2015). “Heidi”, p.114, Xist Publishing
“When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.”
“It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy”
“It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he put it for Jews to enslave people and their descendants and to African Americans.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.267, Vintage
“We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.”

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