"it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs."

-- Myrtle Reed

#People Quotes #House Quotes #Guests Quotes

“This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.”
“Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.”
“I think I was very nave early on, but that also meant I didn't know what couldn't be done.”
“A man who is not with a woman is a dead man.”

Source : "Fictional character: Doctor Otternschlag". "Grand Hotel", www.imdb.com. 1932.
“Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature but the real cause of lots of resistance often is that however much a team might say that it wants to change, the old assumptions are woven, invisibly, deep within the corporate culture, and from this staging ground they act invisibly to sustain the old order. Finding the assumption out and then rooting them out is a special skill. It calls for assumption hunters, I call them.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.”
“Some bruises you wear like badges of honour: when you got it playing rugby, or quad racing, or falling off something while drunk, no opportunity is lost to show off a good contusion. A bruise inflicted by someone else, however, is a whole other story: it's like a big flashing arrow marking you out as punchable, and before long there'll be boys queuing up to add bruises of their own, as if they'd just been waiting for somebody to show them it could be done.”

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