"People donâ€™t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus."

-- Marisha Pessl

#People Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.”
“Prejudice is always dangerous.”
“Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.”
“Each state pursues its own interest's, however defined, in ways it judges best. Force is a means of achieving the external ends of states because there exists no consistent, reliable process of reconciling the conflicts of interest that inevitably arise among similar units in a condition of anarchy.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.238, Columbia University Press
“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
“To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood.”
“The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.”
“Usually I play the bad guy role, a terrorist or someone.”

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