"Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves."

-- James Buchan

#Self Worth Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Bankers Quotes

“I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library: Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. All the wealth in the world and not a single intelligent idea as to how to employ it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.”
“They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.”

Source : Tami Hoag (2004). “Kill the Messenger”, p.397, Bantam
“I think that kids aren't even exploring the option of sports anymore, and they don't even know what they could do.”
“Nothing is impossible to the man who will”
“I take acting very seriously. I put everything I have and know into it.”
“I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.”
“Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.”

Source : "Should Governments Make Happiness A Priority?". Interview with Alison St. John, www.kpbs.org. April 26, 2011.

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