"Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?" She taps the side of her head. "Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens."

-- Jojo Moyes

#Long Quotes #Want Quotes #Sides Quotes

“But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.”
“I tried too much and too hard to get people to pay attention to what I was doing, and so paying less attention to what I actually wanted to do. It's something you see a lot with very young bands who are desperate to get a record deal so they're trying to sound like something else.”
“I think there is always that kind of thing when you're opening that you just want to blow the headline band away.”
“Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you're capable of creating”
“Then you'll feel your cheek scratched... A little kiss, like a crazy spider, Will run round your neck... And you'll say to me : "Find it !" bending your head - And we'll take a long time to find that creature - Which travels a lot...”
“It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.”

Source : Gerrit Smith (1856). “Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress”, p.22
“The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.”
“We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.”

Source : Frank Wedekind (2010). “Spring Awakening: A Play”, p.79, Macmillan

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