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Able Quotes - Page 13

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Ann McGovern, Aesop, Arthur Geisert (1990). “Aesop's Fables”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.11

Strong reasons make strong actions.

William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.231

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.287, The New Press

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group