"Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence."

-- Douglas Coupland

#Doors Quotes #World Quotes #Forget Quotes

“Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.”
“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.”
“I thought for a while, Barack Obama, although he wanted comprehensive reform had less a good chance of getting it than Donald Trump because of the Nixon goes to China factor here, where Trump can secure the border and get people on board, I think he could see comprehensive reform. Not this year, but maybe next year.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count.”
“Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.”
“Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.”
“It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.”

Source : Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.10, Modern Library
“...all human beings have a right, and duty, to be joyful. Anything that thwarts this spiritual human right goes against the very purpose of human being. Spirituality mandates us to wage a relentless war to eradicate these forces of oppression and disempowerment.”

Source : Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

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