"He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation."

-- Leo Tolstoy

#Stupid Quotes #Pride Quotes #Fishing Quotes

“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
“The Arabs were Germany's natural friends...They were therefore prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to participate in a war, not only negatively in the commission of acts of sabotage and the instigation of revolutions, but also positively by the formation of the Arab Legion. In this struggle, the Arabs were striving for the independence and the unity of Palestine, Syria and Iraq...”
“Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.”
“Fate operates when people give up”
“Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.”

Source : Timothy Morton (2007). “Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics”, p.5, Harvard University Press
“According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.”
“Many childrens writers dont have children of their own”
“A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.”

Source : Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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