"How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise."

-- Price Pritchett

#Everyday Quotes #Littles Quotes #Compromise Quotes

“For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.”

Source : "We've got all the space in the world" by Brendan O'Neill, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2009.
“I'm a golfer - not an athlete.”
“Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.”
“Structurally we should understand that one cannot think that the human brain is different from the brain of the other vertebrates. It is an important question, because we can investigate what is the difference between the brain of a mouse and ours, and of course the difference is enormous, in size and capacity.”

Source : Source: www.cerebromente.org.br
“Like an engineer understands a car he or she designed, no one understands your limitations and possibilities better than the God who created you.”

Source : Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo (2015). “Heaven Changes Everything: The Rest of Our Story”, p.24, Thomas Nelson
“I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.”
“I think we all try to figure out ways to ignore the fact that life is about suffering. In the modern world, that's what we're surrounded with. We have all these little tools, such as phones and the Internet, to help us forget about suffering. Whenever you are tired, you don't have to really sit in the abyss of what it means to be alive. We always find ways to avoid it. When a ship sinks, you are sitting in it. There is no way to avoid.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Sometimes I fantasize about learning to write in Khmer. Because if I could write in Khmer, my perspective would be very different, because I'm both an outsider and insider and I see the writing in a different way. My description would be different from, say, a local writer.”

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