"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Bullying Quotes #Two Quotes #Common Sense Quotes

“Remember: People who live in glass houses can see you masturbating in their bushes.”
“When there's fear people act out in desperate ways.”
“I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same”

Source : Michele Jaffe (2012). “Ghost Flower”, p.210, Penguin
“There is a power in people who dream big and who try hard.”
“A friend in power is a friend lost.”

Source : The Education of Henry Adams ch. 7 (1907)
“Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.”
“I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'”
“Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.”

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