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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all.

- Rebecca West | Conversation Quotes

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

- Rebecca West | Women Quotes

There is a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

- Rebecca West | Friendship Quotes

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

- Rebecca West | Friendship Quotes

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.

- Rebecca West | Right Quotes

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.

- Rebecca West | Goals Quotes

Nothing succeeds like failure.

- Rebecca West | Failures and Mistakes Quotes