"Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to Chastity."

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Source : "The World According to Larry" by Moises Naim, foreignpolicy.com. November 11, 2009.

Paul Gigot

#Summer Quotes #Modesty Quotes #Chastity Quotes

“The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.”

Source : Bret Anthony Johnston (2014). “Remember Me Like This: A Novel”, p.197, Random House
“I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting â€” its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers ... it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.”
“The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.”
“What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.”
“Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire.”
“I do believe in monsters oddly enough. I think they're under my bed. But aliens are ridiculous; monsters I think are real completely though.”

Source : Source: movieweb.com
“When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.”
“If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question. Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.”

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