"The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world."

-- Richard Yates

#Half Quotes #World Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.”
“We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you donâ€™t do that, the country would be in ruins.”
“I've been sniffing out the guys in my English class (to the extent that this is possible without getting my throat cut), but they smell the same way they always do: like feet and testicles. As opposed to freesias. I don't want to keep sniffing them, Lyd. - Letter from Seb to Lyd.”
“Let's go, Kitten, before you kill someone else. -Bones”
“In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not necessarily vanish, and we must make the most of them. We shall go down, but let it be in a manner to which we may look forward as worthy of our dignity.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.40, Da Capo Press
“I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.”

Source : "Why the Deadwood Guy Doesn't Care if NBC's Kings Makes Him More Famous". Interview with Jake Halpern, www.esquire.com. April 3, 2009.
“You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.”
“Without love of the land, conservation lacks meaning or purpose, for only in a deep and inherent feeling for the land can there be dedication in preserving it.”

Source : Sigurd F Olson (2012). “Reflections from the North Country”, p.153, Knopf

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