"Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage."

-- E. M. Forster

#Self Quotes #Smell Quotes #People Quotes

“I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, and she hadn't, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she thought. You take a wrong step and set your foot on a wobbly rock or in a drop-off and you're swept away, and all you can do then is try to survive.”

Source : Ron Rash (2009). “Serena”, p.83, Canongate Books
“War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.”
“I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.”

Source : "On Location: Women of the Night". TV Special, July 11, 1987.
“He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And... he's wonderful. - Tim Latimer”

Source : "Doctor Who". www.imdb.com. 2005.
“Friendship is the heaven of life.”
“The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.”

Source : "The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work" by Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com. June 24, 2014.
“Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.”
“Three things a leader or manager should be thinking: What's happening? What's not happening? and What can I do to influence the outcome?”

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