"A book is a suicide postponed."

-- Emile M. Cioran

#Suicide Quotes #Book Quotes

“Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking.”

Source : Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional
“I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. Itâ€™s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.”

Source : Sheri S. Tepper (1997). “The family tree”, HarperCollins
“The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.”
“Get the right perspective. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He is so big. We can never kill him." David looked at the same giant and thought, "He is so big. I can't miss."”
“...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.”
“When I'm on camera, I have to do things pretty much the way I do things in everyday life. It gives the audience someone real to identify with.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
“Please, Kate. Suspend your dislike of me for a few moments and listen to what I have to say. It makes sense." "I don't dislike you. It's an oversimplification.”

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