"The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it."

-- Anthony Kiedis

#Drinking Quotes #Believe Quotes #People Quotes

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”

Source : Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.24, Vintage
“God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.”
“Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.”
“I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my off-hours, to do my own work). I tried my absolute best. And like so many of the moms around me, I started to go a little crazy.”

Source : Judith Warner (2006). “Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety”, p.28, Penguin
“Do you think a woman's silence can be natural?”
“I was very curious, that's why I think my reality TV seems normal. I watch a lot of reality TV because I am so interested in people and observing people. From a very young age I can remember watching a woman with a guy and she's rolling her eyes and he's pleading with her and I would think, she doesn't want to be with him, he's in love with her, she likes this other guy and I would make up these stories in my head about these people. That helps me sort of profile people and that is a key to being able to read people.”

Source : Source: pokerworks.com
“Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.”
“Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry,”

Source : "The price of shame". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2015.

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