"There's a word like overprotective to describe some parents, but no word that means the opposite. What word do you use to describe parents who don't protect enough? Underprotective? Neglectful? Self-involved? Lame? All of the above."

-- R. J. Palacio

#Mean Quotes #Self Quotes #Opposites Quotes

“I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself”
“Treatment of the apparently whimsical fluctuations of the stock quotations as truly non stationary processes requires a model of such complexity that its practical value is likely to be limited. An additional complication, not encompassed by most stock market models, arises from the manifestation of the market as a nonzero sum game.”

Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Revised Edition". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Chapter Nine, Weighted Statistical Logic And Statistical Games, 1977.
“The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.”
“It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.388, A&C Black
“I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not...”

Source : "Senate Panel to Wrap Questioning of Alito". "Morning Edition" with Stebe Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 12, 2006.
“I think I'm a better director than I ever was an actor. I'd love to go back to acting, but nobody seems to want me.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I love finding EPs for bands that you just discover.”
“In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.”

Source : "La Crise mondiale d'aujourd'hui. Pour de profondes réformes des institutions financières et monétaires" by Maurice Allais, Clément Juglar, Paris, (p. 74), 1999.

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