"People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes ..."

-- George Eliot

#Distance Quotes #Eye Quotes #People Quotes

“A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.”

Source : "Torture & Resistance in Iran: Memoirs of the Woman Guerrilla Ashraf Dehghani". Book by Ashraf Dihqani, 1978.
“I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.”
“The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.”
“I dont think men like a bad girl. Well, I havent had a date in a year so Im obviously doing something wrong. Its not that my standards are too high, I havent even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!”
“I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I had seen her personality in glimpses and gleams, like a song sung in snatches, but now it was before me in a large rosy glow, as if it had been a full volume of sound. I heard the whole of the air, and it was sweet fresh music, which I was often to hum over.(Sir Edmund Orme)”
“I haven't decided when I'll get married,”
“I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The settled will of the Scottish people.”

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