"Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19."

-- Kate Beckinsale

#Thinking Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.”
“If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.”
“There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.”
“But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.”
“You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.”

Source : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.
“The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over.”
“For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.”
“Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.”

Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.35, Anchor

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