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Douglas Bader quote: "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise..."

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

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One day I saw the sun set forty-four times!' And a little later you added, 'You know, when you're feeling very sad, sunsets are wonderful...''On the day of the forty-four times, were you feeling very sad?'But the little prince didn't answer. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it. Ron Wyden
Kristin Scott Thomas quote: "I never go straight to the point if I can go the most..."
I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated? Kristin Scott Thomas
Why did Baudelaire? why does anyone? write poetry, in the teeth of all the evidence that one wants you to do so? No one wants you to write it and having written it in spite of them, no one wants to read it. Above all, no one wants to pay for it. For better or worse, a poem has a hard time turning into a commodity. Walter Martin
Daniel Webster quote: "Wisdom begins at the end."
Wisdom begins at the end. Daniel Webster
Faith forged in the furnace of trials and tears is marked by trust and testimony.Only God can count the sacrifice; only God can measure the sorrow; only God can know the hearts of those who serve Him. Thomas S. Monson
While you’re playing yourself out in lonesome dissipation in front of a pinball machine, someone else might be reading through Proust. Still another might be engaged in heavy petting with a girlfriend at a drive-in theater showing of Paths of Courage. The one could well become a writer, witness to the age; the others, a happily married couple. Pinball machines, however, won’t lead you anywhere. Just the replay light. Replay, replay, replay... Haruki Murakami
About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little; it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be... the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are. Stephen King
Mario Puzo quote: "We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we..."
We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again. Mario Puzo
The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents. We are able to choose good over evil, but the opposite too. And in order to protect our human freedom, God doesn't often, very often at least, intervene. God can't do that without taking away our moral freedom. Do you see? No. But yeah. The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation. Louise Erdrich
Natalie Goldberg quote: "If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not..."
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Natalie Goldberg
John Archibald Wheeler quote: "No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed..."
No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon. John Archibald Wheeler
Tyne Daly quote: "A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet..."
A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded. Tyne Daly
People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it. Paul Theroux
Stephenie Meyer quote: "The more you loved someone, the less sense anything makes."
The more you loved someone, the less sense anything makes. Stephenie Meyer