"If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better."

-- Anna Julia Cooper

#Men Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.”
“You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.”
“To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.”
“If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.”
“Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up ***** would have a health impact on me, positive or negative, like shinier hair or weight gain.”

Source : Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.145, Scholastic Inc.
“Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.”
“Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.”
“There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.”

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