"American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror."

-- Betty Friedan

#Brain Quotes #Satisfaction Quotes #Causes Quotes

“Yeah, it was horrible! I mean really horrible. I felt incredibly awkward. It was not something I was [looking forward to]. I don't know, but it looked good. We somehow managed to make it look realistic. I was proud of myself that I managed to power through and be professional.”
“Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.”
“Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.”
“Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?”

Source : Christopher Buckley (2012). “They Eat Puppies, Don't They?”, p.33, Hachette UK
“In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to humanity at any given historical moment, ... the fathers of pragmatism made the satisfaction of the subject the criterion of truth. For such a doctrine there is no possibility of rejecting or even criticizing any species of belief that is enjoyed by its adherents.”

Source : Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.35, A&C Black
“War is not human nature. It is a habit.”
“Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.”
“It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light.”

Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2016). “The City of Ember Complete Series”, p.93, Random House Books for Young Readers

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