"I think we all make our own families, whether they're comprised of blood relations or friends. Some people are lucky and love their families. Others aren't. But whom we spend time with is always a choice. Including our pets."

-- Jane Cleland

#Thinking Quotes #Blood Quotes #People Quotes

“Maybe Formula One should have an inversion rule in qualifying.”
“God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.”
“I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.”
“Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1954). “The Secret Stair”
“When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.”
“Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to say something that will command the respect of the intelligent, the educated, the independent part of the community; to rise above fear of partisanship and fear of popular prejudice. I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.”
“If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.”
“The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manufacturers) who are responsible for the death, mutilation or general wretchedness of thousands or millions are rewarded with fame, riches and prizes... If you are going to rob, rob big; if you're going to kill, kill big.”

Source : Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.142, Beacon Press

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