"What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves help to shape us."

-- Francis Spufford

#Book Quotes #Inward Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“I'm a pretty easygoing guy. I'm not hard to get along with. I never had anybody that I had trouble with. On the other team, sometimes you don't like players because of the way they act, but then you get to know them and then they're very good people. But I never disliked anybody.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.”
“Really, he could have just punched me in the stomach, because my brain refused to comprehend the words he was saying. A physical assault, it might have understood.”
“Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.”
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposedâ€”if all records told the same taleâ€”then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
“So when a music artist puts an album out that can only be streamed, not downloaded, what happens? In Kanye West's case, apparently it gets pirated a lot.”

Source : "Kanye West's 'The Life Of Pablo' Sparks Rampant Piracy". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. February 29, 2016.
“So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If thereâ€™s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all the youngest, most energetic, creative, joyous people in your society and saddle them with, like $50,000 of debt so they have to be slaves? There goes your music. There goes your culture. There goes everything new that would pop out. And in a way, this is whatâ€™s happened to our society. Weâ€™re a society that has lost any ability to incorporate the interesting, creative and eccentric people.”

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