"Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower."

-- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

#Acceptance Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Shows Quotes

“You don't buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you choose your friends, by looking into their lives carefully, before taking any as a companion, then dropping those that are not relevant.”
“I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.”
“If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.”
“Love is not love if there is no beloved.”
“I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.”
“Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.”
“I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.”

Source : "The view from Hastings" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.
“I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.”

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