"Repressively, Lymond himself answered. â€œI dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody â€˜gotâ€™ me,â€ he said."

-- Dorothy Dunnett

#Disease Quotes #Said Quotes #Dislike Quotes

“To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.”
“Composing demands a degree of isolation.”
“I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.”
“The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.”
“I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.”
“To be outspoken when truth is under attack, when charity is being bruise, or when important issues of life are at stake is a good and courageous thing. To be outspoken when nothing is at stake except the feelings of someone else is a small and contemptible thing.”

Source : Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.140, Sophia Institute Press
“I've always been attracted to characters with insurmountable odds and obstacles, because innately, however inarticulately I've always believed that my dreams and my desires can command and bend time and space to be the things that I want them to be.”
“I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.”

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