"When I was younger, when I was a teenager, the work was more satirical and funny and cartoony. And part of it was chops - if you have a more limited repertoire of stick figures and cartoon characters, they lend themselves more to humor than to tragedy."

-- Eric Drooker

#Teenager Quotes #Character Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“It does not seem to me as if I were living in the country in which I was born.”

Source : George Ticknor (1877). “Life, Letters, and Journals”
“Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore the Republic to Constitutional direction, regain our personal liberties and reassume the individual state's primary responsibility and authority in the conduct of local affairs? Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?”
“It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.”

Source : Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee
“Let's acknowledge that men reach for opportunities more quickly and more easily than women. So often as managers, we give the job to whoever starts solving the problem, to whoever jumps in. Since we know men will jump in faster than women in so many circumstances, we have to slow down and encourage more women to sit at more tables.”
“We have to stand up for these issues when it's tough, and that's what I've done. I did it when I was in the state legislature, sponsoring the Illinois version of the DREAM Act, so that children who were brought here through no fault of their own are able to go to college, because we actually want well-educated kids in our country who are able to succeed and become part of this economy and part of the American dream.”
“Passengers don't like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There's a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn't care where and how it's pushed around.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“There is a reason why all things are as they are.”
“If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.”

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