"I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes."

-- Marian Keyes

#Party Quotes #Shoes Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.”
“Man, the feeling of the make is something that I canâ€™t put to words, itâ€™s the very best feeling in the world. I just chase that, itâ€™s a very real feeling and straight up, I am addicted to it.”
“Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.”

Source : "The stars pay tribute to the late Zsa Zsa Gabor" by Katie Frost, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 19, 2016.
“We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists, and in so far as it ever did exist, it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy, followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step.”

Source : Labour Party Annual Conference Report, (p. 188), 1976.
“You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches...Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.”
“The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.”
“The first step in understanding the sex industry is to understand the customers, the johns. ... These men have already violated moral standards - and they know it. Talking about right and wrong aren't compelling arguments for them. They are criminals who have chosen to break the law and hurt people, many of them young people.”
“To rid the grass of weed, to get The whole root, Thick, tangled, takes a strong mind And desire - to make clean, make pure. The weed, tough As the rock it leaps against, Unless plucked to the last Live fiber Will plunge up through dark again. The weed also has the desire To make clean, Make pure, there against the rock.”

Source : Susan Porterfield, Lucien Stryk (1993). “Zen, poetry, the art of Lucien Stryk”, Swallow Pr

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