"All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game."

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Paula McLain

#Games Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Kind Quotes

“A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.”

Source : "Antisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism". Book by Hannah Arendt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 127, 2012.
“Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.”

Source : The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.70, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.”
“There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.”
“Even talking about change can be threatening to entrenched interests...Careers in the Pentagon, the board room, or the halls of Congress are not advanced by creating the disruptions that go with real change, so there are very few voices willing to speak up for the future and move beyond rhetoric to make serious choices,”
“You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal.”
“I'm more of a strumming guitarist, instead of a lead soloist guitarist.”
“Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.53, Sarah Orne Jewett

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