"President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia. And your humble servant hasn't been elected by the people of Russia to be pleasant to someone either. We work, we argue about some issues. We are human. Sometimes one of us gets vexed. But I would like to repeat once again that global mutual interests form a good basis for finding a joint solution to our problems."

-- Vladimir Putin

#Humble Quotes #Gay Quotes #Russia Quotes

“Sam?" Rachel asked. "Do you know you have the saddest sad face ever?”
“There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.”
“I usually don't get this pretty at 3 o'clock.”
“Lower case Ss are notoriously difficult to get right. But in Helvetica it's not straight - you want to go in there and tighten it up. And the 'a' looks so woolly and ill-conceived, it really winds me up.”
“A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.”

Source : Le Parisien, May, 2003.
“We each have two human needs: To learn and grow & to be respected, accepted and loved the way you are. Even though feedback facilitates learning and growth, it conflicts with our need to feel respected. This is a key reason we resist feedback.”
“Forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting to remember, but remembering to forget.”

Source : Gary Inrig (2013). “Forgiveness: Discover the Power and Reality of Authentic Christian Forgiveness”, p.129, Discovery House
“So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

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