"People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives."

-- Ronald Sukenick

#People Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“I enjoy people even when they're being difficult.”

Source : "Greg Walloch Comedian, Storyteller, and Eat Your Words Host". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?”
“We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have run out on our mothers and on us. We seem willing to forgive fathers for loving too little even as we still shrink in terror from mothers who love too much.”
“If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?”
“I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.”

Source : "One on One: Justin Chin and Daphne Gottlieb". www.advocate.com. February 18, 2012.
“Strong ethics keep corporations healthy . Poor ethics make companies sick. Values are the immune system of every organisation.”

Source : "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.
“But then one day the Lord put us together through our agent and it's been a wonderful match.”
“Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock.”

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