"When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people."

-- John French Sloan

#People Quotes #Important Quotes #Crowds Quotes

“Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle.”
“Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.”
“If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last.”
“There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, middle-aged people, in their prime. Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it. But she had that memory now, of something healthy and pure.”

Source : Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.162, Random House
“I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.”
“The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..”

Source : "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.
“Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.”

Source : "How Technology Is Transforming the Wine Industry" by Daniel Burrus, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2016.
“There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reaction formations.”

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