"A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one."

-- David R. Brower

#Clubs Quotes #Pressure Quotes #Disability Quotes

“You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.”
“My chosen drink would be a Southern Comfort, lime and lemonade, a dry martini or a good red wine.”
“Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates.”
“We believe in taking down the barriers, but we also believe in the most energetic reconciliation among peoples by getting them to know each other, talk each other's languages, understand each other's fears and beliefs, getting to know each other physically, philosophically, and spiritually. It is much harder to kill your near neighbor than the thousands of unknown and hostile aliens at the other end of a nuclear missile. We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles.”

Source : Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.
“It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.”
“You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.”
“I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.”

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