"Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them."

-- Sherry Argov

#Powerful Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and have been encouraged to attribute our prosperity and general success among nations, to that sort of action. In my opinion, hard work and dedication to logic and reason ought to be recognized as the reasons for our achievements, not appeals to a mythical friend-in-the-sky. We got where we are in spite of, not because of, those incantations.”
“Children, not a grain of the food we eat is made purely by our own effort. What comes to us in the form of food is the work of others, the bounty of Nature and God's compassion. Even if we have millions of dollars, we still need food to satisfy our hunger. Can we eat dollars? Therefore, never eat anything without first praying with humility.”
“I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.”

Source : Dorothea Lange, Keith F. Davis, Kelle A. Botkin (1995). “The photographs of Dorothea Lange”, Harry N. Abrams
“For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV right now to write dull.”

Source : "Interview with a Plus One". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. February 13, 2015.
“It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.”
“Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?”
“Some tulips last so long you could almost dust them off, and others you can't trust over night.”

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