"Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy."

-- Elizabeth Hardwick

#Love Is Quotes #Self Quotes #Hatred Quotes

“I've had a number of opportunities to hear Andrei Ryabov perform and I am amazed at the high level of creativity, technique and freshness in his playing.”
“There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.”
“He’s totally different from the typical jock. He has no ego. That’s unique for someone with such accolades. His strength comes from a higher power. You can’t explain Steve Largent by computer – he doesn’t belong on an NFL field. You put his size and speed in an IBM computer up in Silicon Valley, it would chew up his data card and laugh.”
“As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters.”

Source : Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.57, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“There's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 1 and 2, and Ratatouille. It's super surreal. We've been working on this for eight years nonstop. Every week we've had a Sausage Party meeting, and now it won't be on our to-do list anymore. It's like the end of summer camp.”

Source : Source: munchies.vice.com
“Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.”

Source : Maria Jane McIntosh (1851). “Grace and Isabel: Or, to Seem and to be”, p.196
“Yeah, I play a lot of point guard. LeBron plays a lot of point guard. A lot of people are thinking too much on positions.”
“We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.”

Source : Alfred Kastler (1988). “Oeuvre scientifique: 1956-1983”

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