"Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down."

-- Meshell Ndegeocello

#Kindness Quotes #People Quotes #Shields Quotes

“In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.”
“I went from being a Christian missionary to an atheist.”
“After fifteen years of facing them (pitchers) you don't really get over them. They're devious. They're the only players in the game allowed to cheat. They throw illegal pitches and they sneak foreign substances on the ball. They can inflict pain whenever they wish. And, they're the only ones on the diamond who have high ground. That's symbolic. You know what they tell you in a war - 'take the high ground first.'”
“The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.”
“I will pursue my passion of cooking every day until my hands fall off and I lose all sense of smell and taste.”
“Maybe I could just James Bond my way down the cable if I draped the scarf over it, clinging to the ends as my body careened down it to safety-- Careened. What an ugly word that was”

Source : Katie Macalister (2005). “Fire Me Up: An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel”, p.155, Penguin
“I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.”
“You never know what'll happen in politics.”

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