"Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours."

-- Jacques Delors

#Way Quotes #Favour Quotes #Individual Quotes

“It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.”
“Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al”
“I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.”
“I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.”
“The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting captures a certain resistance of paint, a prodding gesture of the brush, a speed and insistence in the face of mindless matter...”

Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.2, Routledge
“We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has”
“I don't think we're wasting people in space.”
“I have always wanted to be part of something special, and when I got to Boston.. actually, when I bought, begged and pleaded my way onto the Celtics.. it was already a championship team. I was just glad to be able to sit there and cheer and to be Larry Bird's valet, to be sure that his shoes were fine and his uniform was folded neatly.”

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