"You go beyond 'I want it. I want to have it' - to - 'I'm going to have it"

-- Marilyn Horne

“It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?”

Source : Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1845). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time”, p.212
“If Brad Pitt walked down the street, cars would crash into each other. I'm really lucky not to have to deal with that.”
“I'm just broadening my craft and stretching my skills a little bit in different directions.”

Source : Source: www.moviesonline.ca
“The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.”

Source : William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.129, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.”
“When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.”
“A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.”
“I do not believe in the beauty of falling.”

Source : Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.39, Macmillan

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