"Never strike anyone so old, small or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Abuse Quotes #Verbal Abuse Quotes #Weak Quotes

“Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.”

Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.8, New York Review of Books
“Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.”
“If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.”
“Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.”
“A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.”

Source : Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.94, Vintage
“The people who really know me understand that I have a tough exterior, but I'm actually just a hippie at heart.”
“The values learned on the playing field-how to set goals, endure, take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress-prepare us for life.”
“As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.”

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