"There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing."

-- Larry Merchant

#Thinking Quotes #Boxing Quotes #Body Quotes

“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.”

Source : Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.8, Basic Books
“I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.”
“Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.”
“People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.”

Source : "Walking Through Walls" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. March 8, 2010.
“I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.”
“My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did.”
“I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.”
“When we open to love, we become love.”

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