"Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy."

-- Judith Viorst

#Distance Quotes #Self Quotes #Intimacy Quotes

“[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.”
“Driving stock up from one day to the next is not what we are about. We are about building a good company and performing for the long term. I know everyone says that, that sounds trite when I repeat it that way, but that is and has always been our attitude about our business. If we do the right things, the stock price will take care of itself, and our shareholders will be rewarded.”

Source : "The CEO Behind Costco". Interview with David Gardner, www.fool.com. January 18, 2005.
“With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.”
“Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed”
“I would hope when I do blow up that I can keep that same mentality. I think I will because I'm the kinda dude that no matter how far I take something, I always wanted to be higher.”
“I don't keep from despairing. I let myself despair. I just don't linger there for too long. There's too much to laugh about, two knuckleheads I have to feed, and a lot of really excellent television to watch. I think the mess we're in deserves the full range of human feeling, from despair to its opposite, which I would say is not hope, happiness, or peace, but freedom.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Good men prefer to be accountable.”
“We must learn from history, there is no military solution for the Kashmir issue...we have to understand this reality.”

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