"To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment."

-- Jane Austen

#Half Quotes #Literature Quotes #States Quotes

“I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.”

Source : "Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, 1986.
“Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.”
“If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.”
“My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.”
“Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.”
“This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel...”
“You donâ€™t have to be special, you just have to be kind.”
“Change your meanings you alter your destiny. Life does not give us what we want. Life gives us whatever we expect.”

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