"You know how some people say that they can only read one story a day from this or that collection? If that's simply the result of the great tension and power condensed into each piece, all well and good."

-- Roy Kesey

#People Quotes #Stories Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception.”
“Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.”
“We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.”

Source : "Michael Eisner: Monster, inc". www.independent.co.uk. December 07, 2003.
“Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.”
“There are books in rivulets and sermons in stones. You can gather lessons from everything. If a man does nothing whatsoever he recedes into his own self. God didn't do anything; He was one and wished to be many. He wished - and there were many. If He had not wished there to be many, it would have been sufficient-there would still be the wordless state. So to be in a wordless state is very supreme.”
“I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends”, p.189, London, R. Bentley
“Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny fraction of that many deaths on its conscience. There are scientists who will admit that there's not one iota of scientific evidence to support it.”

Source : "Sam Allardyce, the man: England's new boss from childhood to heart scare and being football's Mr Fix It" by Michael Gadd, www.mirror.co.uk. July 21, 2016.
“Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?”

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