"It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think"

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Source : "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 468, 1977.

Eugene Ionesco

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.”
“Kids take you outside your comfort level because you ask yourself, 'How do I answer that question for them?' You think back to your childhood, and it's like: I don't want to give them that, I want to give them this. My life is my children.”
“He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.”

Source : John Selden (1800). “The Table-talk: Of John Selden, Esq. Being His Sense of Various Matters of Weight and High Consequence; Relating Especially to Religion and State”, p.75
“It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.”
“If I have one thing perfect, it's my eyebrows. And my feet. I love my feet. They're like Japanese feet. The rest I would like to hide. Especially my freckles. I feel ridiculous.”
“Christianity affirms that at the heart of reality is a Heart, a loving Father who works through history for the salvation of His children. Man cannot save himself, for man is not the measure of all things and humanity is not God. Bound by the chains of his own sin and finiteness, man needs a Savior.”
“It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.”
“Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.”

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