"The tyrant is a child of pride."

-- Sophocles

#Children Quotes #Pride Quotes #Tyrants Quotes

“When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.”

Source : Gelett Burgess (1937). “Look Eleven Years Younger”
“The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.”
“You can't blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek.”
“I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I think so much of our society is geared towards mainstream media and pop culture and so forth. And there's a huge divide between the artist and the fan. And with indie culture that wall is removed. You actually do see the musicians walking around enjoying the show. It's a distinctly different culture and for the 99% of Nirvana fans that caught up with them with Nevermind, my book is gonna give them a whole different take on Kurt [Cobain] and the band.”
“Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.”

Source : Howard Nemerov (1978). “Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays”
“If we are desperate, though , if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.”
“As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want.”

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