"All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance."

-- Theodore Hesburgh

#Distance Quotes #Hypocrisy Quotes #Experts Quotes

“Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.”
“To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.”

Source : Big Bill Haywood (1929). “Bill Haywood's book”
“Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.”

Source : Walter Kirn (1993). “She Needed Me”
“To hear people talk, you would think no one ever did anything but love each other. But when you look for it, when you search out this love everyone is always talking about, it is nowhere to be found; and when someone looks for love from you, you find you are not able to give it, you are not able to hold the trust and dreams they want you to hold, any more than you could cradle water in your arms.”
“As soon as I was old enough to peer over the worktops, I remember being fascinated by what went on in the kitchen. It just seemed such a cool place, everyone working together to make this lovely stuff and having a laugh doing it.”

Source : "Paul Merton: 'Am I allowed to call myself working-class now?'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2011.
“Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?”
“Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'”
“You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.”

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