"Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time."

-- Jerzy Kosinski

#Opportunity Quotes #Cities Quotes #Giving Quotes

“We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else.”
“As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.”
“When I see gurgling retarded children (that's God's doing, by the way, not mine) happily styling their hair with their own stinking mards, I think of Adam in those pre-marital days. I know he's your great-to-the-nth-degree-granddad and all - but I'm afraid he was rather an imbecile.”

Source : Glen Duncan (2002). “I, Lucifer”, p.39, Simon and Schuster
“Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins.”
“Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.”
“I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”

Source : "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.
“There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.”

Source : "Women Over 50 Have Sex Drive, Too". Interview with Jincey Lumpkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.
“We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the heroâ€™s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.”

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