"Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Respect Quotes #Self Quotes #Personality Quotes

“In the wake of my talk with Earl, we had come to a mutual understanding about Lena, the only kind guys ever come to. Meaning, I hadnâ€™t brought it up, and they hadnâ€™t brought it up, and between us, we somehow all agreed to go on like this indefinitely. Donâ€™t ask, donâ€™t tell.”
“The interesting thing about the ACE study, as it began in the 1990s, is that it was based on a very strict set of ten questions. But what is evolving from that is a better understanding what kind of experiences are beyond the ten questions, and what kind of stressors it generates, there are so many ways that children can be exposed to ongoing stress.”
“I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.”
“I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.”
“I am running for my Senate district in 2014 and looking forward hopefully to earning the confidence of my community once again and being reelected for that seat.”

Source : "Wendy Davis aide: 2014 run possible" by Elizabeth Titus, www.politico.com. June 28, 2013.
“Art is a business, like any other.”
“You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.”
“There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely”

Source : Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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