"I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual glance at me."

-- M. F. K. Fisher

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Saws Quotes

“I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind - it's their job.”
“I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.”
“Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something thats genuinely better is very hard.”
“As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer.”
“And finally, to all Canadians: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can beÂ a better one - a country of greater equality, justice, and opportunity. We can build a prosperous economy and a society that shares its benefits more fairly. We can look after our seniors. We can offer better futures for our children. We can do our part to save the world's environment. We can restore our good name in the world.”

Source : Jack Layton's Letter to Canadians, www.theglobeandmail.com. August 20, 2011.
“Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.”
“The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.”
“The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.”

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