"I wont ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason."

-- Derrick Rose

#Smart Quotes #People Quotes #Decision Quotes

“I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand.”
“If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.”

Source : Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
“Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large. His art is dense, poetic, and image-ridden. It is always a substantial and genuine thing. At its finest it is one which goes beyond an art of mere appearances to one of mysterious actuality.”
“Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.”

Source : "Roddy Doyle's rules for writers". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.
“I yawned and stretched luxuriously in the morning. I make noises when I stretch because it feels ten times better than stretching silently.”
“Greater Germany - the dream of our fathers and grandfathers - is finally created.”
“I always felt safe and protected. My dad is 6'6" and 280 pounds, so I basically felt protected, and I aspire to have my kids feel the same way.”

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