"One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Vanity Quotes #Wish Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost.”
“The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's.”
“If I actively practice gratitude, I am able to keep myself grounded in the high times and lift myself up in the low times.”

Source : "Trista Sutter from The Bachelorette: Spreading the Gift of Gratitude". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself. You can't help rejoicing and laughing, however moved or sad you feel, when you see the springtime clouds in the sky, the budding branches, moved by the wind, in the bright early sunlight. I'm really looking forward to the spring again. In that piece of Schubert's you can positively feel and smell the breeze and hear the birds and the whole of creation shouting for joy.”
“We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.”
“We need development in the Northern Territory but we don't need it based on something we might get in five years. We don't need it based on something that someone's done a couple of, they haven't even bothered with the back of the beer coaster.”
“Pole dancing really isn't as easy as it looks.”
“Manufacture, don't just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had to start manufacturing the same product I was trading on; which is commodities.”

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