"So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering."

-- Ellen Glasgow

#Long Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Able Quotes

“I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.”
“Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.”

Source : "'Corporate psychopaths' at large" by Lisa Desai, edition.cnn.com. September 3, 2004.
“Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.”
“I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.”
“The only things that are immortal in this world are government programs and cancer cells in petri dishes.”
“So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better teaching, to a greater extent than you might think. Folks who don't have an active intellectual life become, though the long years of just teaching, less intellectually alive and exciting.”
“Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say.”

Source : Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith

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