"The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx."

-- Jose Serrano

#Tolerance Quotes #World Quotes #Today Quotes

“The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul.”
“The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.”
“poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.”
“If you are late for work in Mumbai and reach the station just as the train is leaving the platform, don't despair. You can run up to the packed compartments and find many hands unfolding like petals to pull you on board. And while you will probably have to hang on to the door frame with your fingertips, you are still grateful for the empathy of your fellow passengers, already packed tighter than cattle, their shirts drenched with sweat in the badly ventilated compartment. They know that your boss might yell at you or cut your pay if you miss this train.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.”

Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
“The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.”
“People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.145, Octagon Press Ltd
“It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.”

Source : Sloan Wilson (1976). “What shall we wear to this party?: The man in the gray flannel suit twenty years before & after”, Arbor House Publishing

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