"I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them."

-- Dorothy L. Sayers

#Differences Quotes #Numbers Quotes #People Quotes

“No, I always wanted to be an actress.”
“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”
“The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so often to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs to be cultivated as a talent, as well as recommended as a virtue.”
“Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.”
“I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?”
“Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.”

Source : Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.18, Oneworld Publications
“If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.”
“An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.”

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