"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped."

-- Cesare Pavese

#Life Quotes #Time Quotes #Party Quotes

“I don't believe biology works in an uncontrolled fashion.”

Source : "Mourdock Rape Comment Puts GOP on Defense" By Gregory J. Krieg, Chris Good, abcnews.go.com. October 24, 2012.
“It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting , gave him mainstream clout) would be interested in making this film. The lure of an exact remake presents a tremendous challenge. Unfortunately, it was undoubtedly a lot more stimulating for Van Sant and his crew to make Psycho than it is for an audience to watch it. [C]uriosity is going to be one of the primary reasons why people pay money to see this movie; boredom will be the predominant result.”
“We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.”
“So fully am I impressed with the vast importance and necessity of attaining what will be the object of my motion this night, that if, during the almost forty years that I have had the honour of a seat in parliament, I had been so fortunate as to accomplish that, and that only, I should think I had done enough, and could retire from public life with comfort, and the conscious satisfaction, that I had done my duty.”

Source : Charles James Fox (1815). “The speeches of the right honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons”, p.659
“The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.”
“Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.”
“Umpires are like emotional girlfriends, once they make up their minds, there is no point in arguing”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 10, 2011
“The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.”

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