"The families of our friends are always a disappointment."

-- Norman Douglas

#Family Quotes #Disappointment Quotes

“I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I restricted when I was hungry and in need of nutrition and binged when I was so grotesquely full I couldn't be comfortable in any position by lying down. Diets that tell people what to eat or when to eat are the practices inbetween. And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating.”
“I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.”

Source : "Theater owners to studios: Make better films". www.today.com. March 15, 2006.
“There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.”
“Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.”
“The Bf 109 is, without doubt, the most satisfying and challenging aircraft that I have ever flown.”
“Any fourth grade history student knows socialism has failed in every country, at every time in history,”
“It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.”
“America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.”

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