Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
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Anna Godbersen
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.
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L.m. Montgomery
No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.
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Ami McKay
And though there’s a grain of truth in every rumor, I’ve found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.
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Kathleen ODell
More Quotes By David Halberstam
[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'", March 25, 2007.)
There was, I found, always more to learn.
Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.
Officers came and went and were never a part of daily life.
The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function.
