"The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society."

-- Cody Lundin

#Self Quotes #Majority Quotes #Population Quotes

“If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.”
“So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.110, Pan Macmillan
“What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.”
“In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.”
“It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.”

Source : Jean Webster (2004). “Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy”, p.105, Penguin
“Over the years I knew her she always looked at me like that - as though I was a quite pleasant but amusing object - and it always did the same thing to me. It's difficult to put into words but perhaps I can best describe it by saying that if I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.”

Source : James Herriot (2012). “Let Sleeping Vets Lie”, p.104, Pan Macmillan
“When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want ads.”

Source : "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.
“Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.”

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