"By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct."

-- Honore de Balzac

#Sacrifice Quotes #Men Quotes #Instinct Quotes

“When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.”

Source : Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.6, Penguin UK
“Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.”
“It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.”
“I believe the American people have the capacity to create a new movement, which would change the direction of our nation from being a military power to being a peaceful nation, using our enormous wealth for human needs, here and abroad.”
“Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently â€“ rationing, by its proper name â€“ the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.”

Source : "Beyond Obamacare". www.nytimes.com. September 16, 2012.
“Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.”
“Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.”
“I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.”

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