"To do peace, you must get up off your apathy."

-- Yolanda King

#Apathy Quotes #Get Up Quotes

“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”

Source : Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.3, Basic Books
“I'm not a detective from Baker Street or an old lady who solves crimes while she's knitting in an easy chair. I'm just a book girl. So I can't make a deduction, only take a flight of fancy--er, forget I said that. I meant, I can only take a guess.”
“If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.”
“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.”
“I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.”

Source : "Likely lads' return" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2004.
“You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that?”
“I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.”
“From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.”

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