"This is where our obsession with going fast and saving time leads. To road rage, air rage, shopping rage, relationship rage, office rage, vacation rage, gym rage. Thanks to speed, we live in the age of rage."

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Source : Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

Carl Honore

#Vacation Quotes #Shopping Quotes #Air Quotes

“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”
“No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.”

Source : Jennifer Echols (2012). “Going Too Far”, p.86, Simon and Schuster
“I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.”
“We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). WE can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail-period!”
“Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.”
“A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about the story, the stage, the lighting, the costuming, executing someone's idea, choosing how far to go or how little to go, and blending it so that you feel it, you're emotionally effected.”
“If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace which would be heaped upon me. But what matter? I had no children to dishonor; all save one who had ever loved me were dead, and she no longer needed me, and if the Lord wanted some one to throw into that gulf, no one could be better spared than I.”
“Failure to love is almost like murder.”

Source : "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak, 1957.

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