"Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them."

-- J. B. Priestley

#Past Quotes #People Quotes #Bovine Quotes

“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.”
“Look back to learn how to look forward.”

Source : Joe Girard, Stanley H. Brown (2006). “How to Sell Anything to Anybody”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
“The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling.”
“I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question in mind: to what extent does it feed into existing stereotypes and established prejudice?”

Source : Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground”, p.278, A&C Black
“Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.”
“I love to sing. I'm definitely not a very good singer, but when I'm in my shower I get down for sure.”
“My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with the narrowest segment uppermost. The lower the segment the greater it is in breadth, depth, and area.”

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