"loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that."

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Source : Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

Marilyn French

#Loneliness Quotes #Mean Quotes #People Quotes

“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”

Source : Quoted in J. B. Birks, Rutherford at Manchester (1962)
“I didnâ€™t fall in love with James. Falling sounds like an accident. Falling hurts. Iâ€™d fallen in love with Michael, fallen hard like slipping off a cliff and hitting the rocks below. Falling in love was something Iâ€™d vowed never to do again. I chose to love James.”
“I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.”
“I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.”

Source : Muriel Spark (2001). “Loitering with Intent”, p.80, New Directions Publishing
“Long slow distance makes long slow runners.”
“Iâ€™ve worked with volunteers before,â€ he began. â€œItâ€™s important not toâ€¦ not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are laboring to obtain a heavenly reward, and should therefore work harder than they would for money; but they donâ€™t necessarily take that attitude. They feel theyâ€™re working for nothing, and doing a great kindness to us thereby; and if we seem ungrateful they will work slowly and make mistakes. It will be best to rule them with a light touch.”
“No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another”

Source : Robert Barr (2016). “DEATH COMETH SOON OR LATE: 35+ Tales of Mystery & Revenge in One Volume (Thriller Classics Series): An Electrical Slip, The Vengeance of the Dead, The Great Pegram Mystery, The Vengeance of the Dead and many more”, p.232, e-artnow
“I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings â€“ they pay attention to which TV shows have the highest ratings, how many friends they have on Facebook, and itâ€™s funny. The best shows often have low ratings and it is impossible to have thousands of real friends.”

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