"My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice."

-- Oscar Pistorius

#Brother Quotes #Sorry Quotes #Nice Quotes

“Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.”

Source : John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.36, Green Dragon Books
“Lenelle MoÃ¯se's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but corporeal: the beautiful system of the human body as canvas and subject, perfect in all its attendant complications and complexity, and still ruled, undeniably, by a warm, beating heart.”
“I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.”

Source : Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.
“If I was a supervillain, I think I'd probably ban all smoking and drinking. That's exactly what I'd do: I'd remove all the cigarettes and alcohol from the world. That would piss so many people off. That's worse than, like, murdering puppies. For some people.”
“But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.”

Source : John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.85, Simon and Schuster
“A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.”
“I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas.”
“There are so many businesses that are succeeding on Yelp that don't pay us a dollar, and we're really excited about that.”

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