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“Own your lapses in judgment. It happens to everyone. Correct the problem and return to being a person of good character.”

— William H. McRaven

“Leadership requires energy. It requires stamina. It requires resilience. It requires everything you have and then some.”

— William H. McRaven

“You know how a play in dialect is. At the first act, you think, "How quaint!"; at the second act, you wish they would either stop using dialect or keep quiet; and at the third…”

— Dorothy Parker

“Writing a book for the Follies seems to be about as profitable an occupation as furnishing flannel petticoats for the showgirls.”

— Dorothy Parker

“Of course, there are many things to be said for the afternoon performance, chief among them being that it cuts in so generously on one's work.”

— Dorothy Parker

“If you arrive late, you won't know what anything is about, and if you are there all the way from the beginning, you won't care.”

— Dorothy Parker

“There is one thing that appreciably eases the strain for the plays that arrive at this time of year, and that is that practically nothing is expected of them.”

— Dorothy Parker

“The play holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinée. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.”

— Dorothy Parker

“It is advertised as “a seagoin’ comedy,” and anytime they go leaving off the final g that way, you know what to expect.”

— Dorothy Parker

“This use of soldiers to make a play popular seems too much like taking an unfair advantage of the uniform—hitting below the Sam Browne belt, as it were.”

— Dorothy Parker

“The palace is like a mighty river: its middle is goring bulls; what flows in is never enough to fill it, and what flows out can never be stopped.”

— Instructions of Shuruppak

“Heaven is far, earth is most precious, but it is with heaven that you multiply your goods, and all foreign lands breathe under it.”

— Instructions of Shuruppak

“The warrior is unique, he alone is the equal of many; Utu is unique, he alone is the equal of many.”

— Instructions of Shuruppak

“Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Other desires and other hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong!”

— Emily Brontë

“What matters it, that, all around, Danger, and guilt, and darkness lie, If but within our bosom's bound We hold a bright, untroubled sky, Warm with ten thousand mingled rays Of…”

— Emily Brontë

“So hopeless is the world without; The world within I doubly prize; Thy world, where guile, and hate, and doubt, And cold suspicion never rise; Where thou, and I, and Liberty, Have…”

— Emily Brontë

“I love those reformations that prevent revolutions, by keeping pace with the gradual progress of reason and knowledge.”

— Horace Walpole

“Bad men and poisonous plants are sometimes of superlative use in skilful hands.”

— Horace Walpole

“To talk of the weather was once a matter of ridicule. But that soon went out; for the weather is, in fact, so important in this changeable climate, that our health and bread…”

— Horace Walpole

“I have sometimes thought that a squire and a vestry were a king and republic in miniature. The vestry is as tyrannic, in its way, as the squire in his.”

— Horace Walpole

“Barking dogs never bite. The danger in France arose from silent and instantaneous action. They said nothing, and did every thing—ours say every thing, and will do nothing.”

— Horace Walpole

“You think me ambitious: ambition, alas! is composed of more rugged materials. If I were ambitious, I should not for so many years have been a prey to all the hell of conscientious…”

— Horace Walpole

“Writers are not, by nature, respectable: their function is to be subversive.”

— Anthony Burgess

“The great gift of the southern lands to our civilisation is the simple right to sit at an outside cafe table and look at things.”

— Anthony Burgess