"People who stare deserve the looks they get."

-- Malcolm Forbes

#People Quotes #Looks Quotes #Manners Quotes

“I now extend to you the invitation to help transform the trickle into a floodâ€¦.I exhort you to sweep the earth with messages filled with righteousness and truthâ€”messages that are authentic, edifying, and praiseworthyâ€”and literally to sweep the earth as with a flood.”
“The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control.”
“The same way all the people I love factor inâ€”my parents, my sister, my girlfriend [Lena Dunham], my best friend, all the people I love are always right there. I don't have a lot of people in my life, but there's a small group of people that I don't like to do things without.”
“I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.”

Source : Richard Aldington (1928). “Collected poems”
“George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.”
“Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.”
“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”

Source : T. S. Eliot (1986). “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England”, p.149, Harvard University Press
“I kicked a boy in the shins in second grade for making fun of my father.”

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