"It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are."

-- Agatha Christie

#Nice Quotes #Men Quotes #Hard Life Quotes

“No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.”

Source : Max Barry (2013). “Lexicon”, p.165, Hachette UK
“Great comedy calls large matters into question.”

Source : Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner
“Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is wanting to be saved and we can never really be saved? Maybe love is really born of our fears. Love is the heartâ€™s desire for a painkiller; a tearful plea for a great big epidural. Yes thatâ€™s it: love is the only anesthesia that really works. And so people with broken hearts are really those who are just coming to, and if youâ€™ve ever seen someone come out of general anesthesia, you know that it looks a lot like the beginnings of a broken heart.”
“Where would fashion be without literature?”
“It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.”
“Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.”
“The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“If you only knew all the love that I found, it's hard to keep my soul on the ground.”

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