"Just so you know, Iâ€™m goinâ€™ to enlist.â€ â€œIâ€™m proud of you. But why?â€ I groan against the pain but manage to give him a half smile. â€œI want to make sure Kiaraâ€™s got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that could make angels weep."

-- Simone Elkeles

#Pain Quotes #Angel Quotes #Giving Quotes

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

Source : Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.398, Basic Books
“I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.”
“Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!”
“Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”

Source : "A man who won't forget Ray Bradbury" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2012.
“Without compassion, true gratitude is an impossibility. If we are to feel gratitude towards another for their deeds, then we must have compassion for the suffering and self-sacrifice which they endured in carrying out those deeds. If their actions were free of suffering or sacrifice, then are they truly deserving of gratitude?”
“Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.”
“The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change is the emergence of what might best be called procedural epistemology-the study of the structure of knowledge from an imperative point of view, as opposed to the more declarative point of view taken by classical mathematical subjects.”
“I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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