"There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics."

-- Ed Koch

#Enemy Quotes #Trying Quotes #Want Quotes

“Never tripping off the past, I would rather never mind 'em/'Cause only fools trip over something that be behind 'em”
“I grew up in a house of forthright women.”

Source : "This much I know: Chris O'Dowd" by Sarah Hughes, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.
“I would not like to be the only woman on the court.”
“Each human being is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable.”
“A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking”

Source : Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.55, Random House
“I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking for minor parking infringements, nobody seems to notice that our very social fabric is falling apart.”

Source : Christopher Fowler (2010). “The Victoria Vanishes: (Bryant and May Book 6)”, p.248, Random House
“King RenÃ© of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to acquire the surnom of the Good. He was brave in war, delighted in tournaments and wrote on them, instituted festivals and processions, partly religious and partly burlesque, was a fond husband, a romantic lover, a good painter for that age, and a true philosopher.”
“I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.”

Source : Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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