"It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant."

-- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#Years Quotes #Justice Quotes #People Quotes

“If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?”
“I am a teller of stories...a weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather stand on my head. I know seven words of Latin. I have a little magic and a trick or two. I know the proper way to meet a dragon, can fight dirty but not fair, and once swallowed thirty oysters in a minute. I am not domestic. I am a luxury, and in that sense, necessary.”
“So let's say you realize that you are never going to be a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. person. You're not cut out for that sort of typical work environment. The benefit might be that if you embrace that and say I need to be self-employed or I need to be doing more project-oriented work. Identify the benefits - I'd be more productive. I'd be happier. The people around me would be happier because my mood would be better. When you identify the benefits of accepting the behavior or habit, you actually give leverage to it and give yourself a better chance of sticking with it.”
“I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.”
“Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. Even the nailed god cannot change that truth. And I was a warrior, and in a world at war the warrior must be cruel.”
“The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.”

Source : Raymond Williams (2001). “The Long Revolution”, p.311, Broadview Press
“It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.”
“We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.”

Source : Interview with Julius Mason, www.rydercup.com. September 14, 2004.

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