"It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother."

-- Georg Brandes

#Mother Quotes #Difficult Quotes #Please Quotes

“I think of a lot of comedy being watched alone, for some reason. It's surprising to me that people are getting together to watch stand-up comedy.”
“I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.”
“If God accepts the sacrifice of my life, may my death be for the freedom of my people.Â A bishop will die, but the Church of God, which is the people, will never perish. I do not believe in death without resurrection.Â If they kill me, I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.”
“There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reaction formations.”
“I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.”
“No, you can't go getting mad at people because they're shitty. Life will get mad at them, don't worry..”

Source : Justin Halpern (2010). “Sh*t My Dad Says”, p.13, Harper Collins
“The only thing a man knows is himself.”
“Reminded of favorite poem by Wendy Cope which goes: At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle. The cold winter air makes our hands and faces tingle. And happy families go to church and cheerily they mingle, And the whole business is unbelievably dreadful if you're single.”

Source : Helen Fielding (2016). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

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