"It is terrible to speak well and be wrong."

-- Sophocles

#Speech Quotes #Speak Quotes #Terrible Quotes

“Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.”
“For the past 25 years as an adoption attorney, I have witnessed the extraordinary courage and compassion of women - from age 14 to 40 - facing unplanned pregnancy. Not once did I believe that the government should interfere with their personal and private decision.”

Source : "The Case for Contraception" by Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.
“I just need to be in a position where I can control the ball, make smart decisions, and do what I'm coached up to do.”
“Some of us are more concerned with our reputation than our character. The latter takes care of the former.”
“Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.”
“It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.”

Source : Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.280, Cambridge University Press
“The busy have no time for tears.”
“The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.”

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