"Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold snow strikes down from the head, and checks the glow of feeling. Who wants to survive into old age after abdicating all his faculties one by one, and be sans teeth, sans eyes, sans memory, sans hope, sans sympathy?"

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

#Running Quotes #Memories Quotes #Selfish Quotes

“The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.”

Source : CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.
“I have learned a lot about good and evil - they are not always what they appear to be.”

Source : "Fictional character: Charles Van Doren". "Quiz Show", 1994.
“More important is not how much you have but with whom you share it”
“But I miss screamin' and fightin' and kissin' in the rain and it's 2 a.m. and I'm cursin' your name. You're so in love the you act insane, and that's the way I loved you.”
“That's one of the things we're most excited about, really, is just allowing this great, Oscar-nominated actor, giving him material to play in one of his signature roles.”
“The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.
“Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.”
“If you phone a psychic and she doesn't answer the phone before it rings, hang up.”

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