"Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so."

-- Tacitus

#Thinking Quotes #Opinion Quotes #Judged Quotes

“Our shadows are taller than ourselves.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.101, New Victoria Publishers
“I always enjoyed going into the holodeck.”
“Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.”
“I am double jointed in my elbow. So I can turn it all the way around and then bend it so it looks like it's broken.”
“In adversity, everything that surrounds you is a kind of medicine that helps you refine your conduct, yet you are unaware of it. In pleasant situations, you are faced with weapons that will tear you apart, yet you do not realize it.”
“Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.”
“All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, the host of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there a casualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, and here and there a fresh disaster.”
“That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.”

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