"Having lost its value, money may no longer be the root of all evil; credit having taken its place."

#Taken Quotes #Roots Quotes #Evil Quotes

“As soon as one of my records goes on, it makes a vast portion of the public nervous. They get spooked by it. To some people who have ears to hear, it's a delightful, refreshing change. But to most of the public, it's a load of homemade-sounding nonsense.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Some days you feel like you've had the greatest ego massage, then the next day you've been trampled on.”
“The madhouse is in a lot of places, not just a hospital, not just a palace, but also a pattern woven from threads so fine that no one can distinguish them, neither the Emperor nor the children, neither you nor I.”
“I put it (a still life of a pear, made by Manet, ed.) there (on the wall, next to Ingres' Jupiter, ed.), for a pear like that would overthrow any god.”
“It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.”

Source : Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2009). “The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun”, p.3, Hendrickson Publishers
“Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!”
“I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you are not here to set me right. The truth is that you did not believe in idealism. All love was suspect; even a saint's was just differed self-interest. And it was impossible to argue without sounding either sentimental or naive. Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary. And you studied early to disguise your childhood pain. But it is not universal.”
“Donâ€™t be against things so much as for things.”

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