"Pride is never so loud as when in chains."

-- Lew Wallace

#Pride Quotes #Loud Quotes #Chains Quotes

“I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.”
“Sometimes it was easier to swim with the current rather than fight against it. There was always a shallow pool somewhere ahead. Memories are like battles, and battles can go one way or the other. You can stand and fight, no matter what pains run from you wounds; or you can turn tail and run, knowing then that the enemy will follow and without mercy hunt you down. We had so many dreams as children. Where do they all go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up?”
“Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.”
“Humility is simply believing and accepting what God says about us, and God says that we are anything but worthless.”
“Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.”
“There are no inevitabilities in history”

Source : Paul Johnson (1983). “Modern times: the world from the twenties to the eighties”, HarperCollins Publishers
“The poor we shall always have with us, but why the hungry?”
“A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.”

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