"I used to feel like I was a flea on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Now I feel I might be a small yapping poodle on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex."

-- Phil Zimmermann

#Poodles Quotes #Might Quotes #Fleas Quotes

“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”
“The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.”
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words.”
“The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.”

Source : Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.44, Oneworld Publications
“To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.”

Source : "Verses and Meditations". Book by Rudolf Steiner, 1985.
“There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.”
“I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.”
“Some of them are working very hard indeed. â€œWhat are they doing?â€ â€œMy boy!â€ he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious. â€œThey are reading!”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

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