"If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well."

-- Muriel Barbery

#Inspiring Quotes #Friends Quotes #Wells Quotes

“What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. How do you know...I felt that by walking away I was abandoning [them], that I spent my entire life, day after day, abandoning people.”

Source : "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You".
“I feel my absolute best physically, mentally and spiritually when I'm surfing every day.”

Source : "13 Questions With Marisa Miller". AskMen Interview, uk.askmen.com.
“When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it find its way into your "literary voice") because writing was done in merciful privacy and silence. Even if you were partly out of your mind it might turn out to be all right: you could try for control even harder than Blanche Dubois was said to have tried, and with luck you could still bring off a sense of order and sanity on the page for the reader. Reading, after all, was a thing done in privacy and silence too.”
“Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.”
“African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.”
“But remember, when the people once part with power, they can seldom or never resume it but by force. Many instances can be produced in which the people have voluntarily increased the powers of their rulers; but few, if any, in which rulers have willingly abridged their authority. This is a sufficient reason to induce you to be careful, in the first instance, how you deposit the powers of government.”
“After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.”
“The best way to hold customers is to constantly figure out how to give them more for less.”

Source : Philip Kotler (2011). “Marketing Insights from A to Z: 80 Concepts Every Manager Needs to Know”, p.38, John Wiley & Sons

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