"Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are."

-- Rosamund Lupton

#Self Esteem Quotes #Style Quotes #Portraits Quotes

“Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children”

Source : "U.N. Says ‘Evidence’ Points to Israel in Gaza School Attack". www.nytimes.com. July 30, 2014.
“Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.”

Source : Yanis Varoufakis (2015). “The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy”, p.43, Zed Books Ltd.
“Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.”
“The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.”

Source : "A Cyborg Manifesto". Essay by Donna J. Haraway, www.theguardian.com. 1984.
“The better you get, the better you better get.”
“I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.”
“Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”

Source : David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.368, Random House
“My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.”

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