"Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they donâ€™t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you need to be admonished? Is it less rousing if they donâ€™t rattle your windows and nerves with indiscriminate sonic booms just because they can?"

-- Rabih Alameddine

#Needs Quotes #Nerves Quotes #Bombs Quotes

“You dont live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.”
“Women go after doctors like men go after models. They want someone with knowledge of the body. We just want the body.”
“We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.”
“For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British people more today than at any point since the Second World War... A child born into a rich family in Britain will almost certainly live and die rich, while a child born into a poor family will almost certainly live and die poor.”

Source : "Britain - a caste society?". JohannHari.com, January 29, 2006.
“Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.”
“I would have rather been punished for asserting myself than become another victim of hatred.”
“Whether your gift is mighty or humble, whether you exercise it in the marketplace or at the podium, in the executive suite or in the schoolroom, in the office or at home, your main task or gift or ministry is to be a light in a dark world.”

Source : Gigi Graham Tchividjian (2001). “For Women Only: Keeping Your Balance in a Changing World”, Baker Publishing Group
“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”

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