"Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?"

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Respect Quotes #People Quotes #Pay Quotes

“Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.”
“Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?”

Source : Vine Deloria, Jr. (2010). “The World We Used to Live in: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men (Large Print 16pt)”, p.300, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.”
“New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.”

Source : James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”
“Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.”
“Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.”
“I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.”

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