"You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish."

-- Anita Brookner

#Selfish Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Decision Quotes

“I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It's a myth that the border can't be enforced. It can be enforced.”
“Cultivate your sense of humour. On life's journey from nappy rash to denture adhesive, humour is a great pain reliever.”
“Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.”
“Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.”
“We all talk to ourselves. A major key to success exists in what we say to ourselves, which helps to shape our attitude and mindset.”
“You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.”
“Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish!”

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