Precluding Exertion Quotes

#1. I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.

William Shakespeare

#2. Maybe when you were a kid you were so unsure of yourself that every school year was a time of reinvention; maybe only adults were stupid enough to think they knew exactly who they were.

Anna Quindlen

#3. There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#4. We're alive," he said at last.
"It seems you prayed to the right god."
"Or traveled with the right people.

Leigh Bardugo

#5. We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.

Susan Jacoby

#6. I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.

Joe Manchin

#7. Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant.

Paul Auster

#8. When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

Craig Claiborne

#9. In that case, which would be the lesser of two evils - terror cabin with a psycho or beach estate with a weirdo?

K. Webster

#10. Everything can change. You can always have hope.

Willie Aames

#11. It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.

Wayne Rooney