I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Jackson

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

Jane Austen

I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.

William Shakespeare

If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.

Samuel Butler

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

Potter Stewart

It is not worth singing for ourselves; it is nicer if two people sing together. Then more people: hundreds, thousands, until the huge Harmony can be heard, in which we can all be just one, indeed. Then will we be able to say:

Zolt, Bicinia Hungarica, 1937

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

James Cash Penney

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Shelley

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

Laurell K Hamilton

Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

William Shakespeare

What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.

David Sedaris

Religion is like holding on to a rock in the middle of a raging river; faith is learning how to swim.

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