"Evanlyn smiled grimly as she thought how once she might have objected to the cruelty of the bird's death. Now, all she felt was a sense of satisfaction as she realized that they would eat well today. Amazing how an empty belly could change your perspective, she thought."

-- John Flanagan

#Perspective Quotes #Bird Quotes #Satisfaction Quotes

“People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages.”
“The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.”
“Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.”

Source : Joe McGinniss (2012). “The Selling of the President”, p.23, Byliner Inc.
“Lawyer even sounds like liar.”
“There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.”
“Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one youâ€™ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.”
“In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.”

Source : "The tyranny of the minority" by Peter Fenn, www.politico.com. March 19, 2009.
“The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.”

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