"The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Lying Quotes #Expectations Quotes #World Quotes

“Health care costs are on the rise because the consumers are not involved in the decision-making process. Most health care costs are covered by third parties. And therefore, the actual user of health care is not the purchaser of health care. And there's no market forces involved with health care.”
“As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.”
“God is the Truth. The Bible is the truth about the Truth. Theology is the truth about the truth about the Truth.”
“Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.”
“Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.”
“It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am”
“Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.”

Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.741, Northwestern University Press
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