"Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but ... to be a reliable political leader sooner or later your anchors must hold fast where other men's drag."

-- Margot Asquith

#Men Quotes #Anchors Quotes #Leader Quotes

“I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.”
“Yes I usually make my kids eat their veggie chops and watch my concerts in dead silence. If they ask to watch spongebob squarepants I usually do something volatile like make them eat a yellow sponge with googly eyes on it. I hit them quite a bit, but then again I blame the condom manufacturing government for forcing me to birth them.”
“He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.”

Source : 1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Execution of Montrose', stanza14.
“People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices”
“Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!”
“Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.”
“Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.”
“Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.”

Source : J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.21, Princeton University Press

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