"A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements."

-- Eric Hoffer

#People Quotes #Age Quotes #Youth Quotes

“Bad days, good days, â€˜Iâ€™ll cut you if you look at me the wrong wayâ€™ days. Iâ€™ll take them all.”
“I suppose if the offending paparazzi was wearing a hoodie and I shot him, it would all blow over.”

Source : "Alec Baldwin in Criminal Investigation After Allegedly Attacking Photographers" by Alexandra J. Gratereaux, www.foxnews.com. June 20, 2012.
“We need to be ambivalent - in the essay, and in life too. Ambivalence - having mixed feelings, entertaining contradiction, living with fluctuation - is a widened embrace. It's about the coexistence of things, and in that light, we have no choice in the matter.”

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.
“Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.”
“As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war.”
“The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.”
“There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books.”

Source : Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2004). “The Velvet Room”, p.64, iUniverse
“Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.”

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