"If I'm afraid of someone on the street, I'll turn to him (it's always a boy) and say, "Excuse me, do you happen to know what time it is?" This is my way of saying to the person, "I see you as a friend, and there is no need to hurt me or take my stuff. Also, I don't even have a watch and I am probably not worth mugging." So far, it's worked like gangbusters... And I've discovered that most people I'm afraid of are actually very friendly."

-- Rebecca Stead

#Hurt Quotes #Boys Quotes #People Quotes

“Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.”
“But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it.”
“The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.”
“The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself.”
“There is a gap between the knowledge, skills, or state of mind of the learner and what he is to learn, which it seems to me any teaching activity must seek to bridge if it is to deserve that label. Teaching activities must therefore take place at a level where the pupil can take on what it is intended he should learn.”
“The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.”
“I love my babies so much that I could kiss them all day long..as a job. I could be a professional baby kisser. No joke.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 13, 2012
“We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.”

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