"I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations."

-- Tavis Smiley

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.”

Source : Bruce Robinson (2015). “Withnail and I”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing
“If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis and opportunity. Being sick is then not a condemnation or a moral judgement, but a movement in a larger process of healing and restoration. When sickness is viewed positively and in supportive terms, then illness has a much better chance to heal, with the concomitant result that the entire person may grown and be enriched in the process.”
“The opening of the doors to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue.”

Source : "Britain to be 'swamped' by millions of immigrants" by Richard Spillett, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 24, 2012.
“I was born in Siberia, where the biggest oil reserves in Russia are, and I grew up thinking that there was nothing worse for our planet than the oil industry.”
“Teddy grinned again. 'Truths are dangerous,' he said. -'Then why are you writing them in a book?' -'To catch them between the pages,' said Teddy, 'and trap them before they disappear.' -'If they're dangerous, why not let them disappear?' -'Because when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.”
“I think it's the support from our parents. They want to see us succeed and do what we want to do.”
“There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.”
“I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.”

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