"What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?"

-- Jerome Cavanagh

#Country Quotes #Moon Quotes #Men Quotes

“We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.”

Source : O. Henry (1995). “100 Selected Stories”, p.48, Wordsworth Editions
“It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king.”

Source : Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.68, Courier Corporation
“We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.”

Source : Elizabeth Goudge (2012). “The White Witch”, p.142, Hachette UK
“Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a reach. The two skills are just so different. And, by the way, I get more nervous playing piano.”
“Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.”

Source : Thomas Keneally (2013). “Schindler's List”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.”
“[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.”
“The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose--the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.”

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