"Speed as a drug disorganizes the personality; speed as the goal of information dissemination commits a subtler crime. People are mainlining our words. We rarely read of the rational alternatives, only of the commands that all must change or else. This is a prescription for public panic."

-- Gail Sheehy

#People Quotes #Goal Quotes #Personality Quotes

“The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.”
“The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.”
“Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.”

Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1851). “Poems”, p.44
“The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity.”

Source : Hester Lynch Piozzi (1861). “Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)”, p.100
“Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy”

Source : Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”
“Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can never be reached?”
“You feel you can pretend to be young until you're 50, but after that, what happens and how do you approach it?”
“Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]”

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