"It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up."

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Source : Margaret Kennedy (2014). “Ladies of Lyndon”, p.100, Random House

Margaret Kennedy

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Worry Quotes

“The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.”
“One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self correcting his own material moral, and spiritual defects, and evil. The black man need to start his own program to get rid of drunkenness, drug addiction and prostitution. The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values.”
“I've set no world record.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.”
“In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.”
“Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.”
“There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment.”
“How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.”

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