"Why are you obsessed with fighting? Stick to fishing from now on."

-- Tim Rice

#Fighting Quotes #Fishing Quotes #Sticks Quotes

“The Social LicenseÂ is fundamentally about accountability to people and not just powerful interests. John Morrisonâ€™s book reminds all organizations â€“ governments, business and civil society â€“ to focus on the legitimacy of their own actions.”
“Where you have a villain in the piece or the antagonist, whatever you want to call them, there has to be humanity at the core of it or it's faintly ridiculous. Nobody is just villain through and through. You have to feel something for them.”
“Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women ...”
“Everyone has different problems, but everyone has some kind of problem.”
“Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.”
“There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it inâ€”that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do.”

Source : Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.84, Xist Publishing
“Generally speaking, you only put someone on paid leave if you're pretty certain that they might be terminated from the company once you do your investigation.”
“There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.10, Harvard University Press

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