"Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Upset Quotes #Mind Quotes #Littles Quotes

“The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.”
“Demons frighten us because we set ourselves up to be frightened. We are overly attached to our reputations and possessions. When we love and desire what we should be rejecting, we are in conflict with our true selves. That's when the negative energies catch us and use our weapons against us. Instead of taking up what we have to defend ourselves, we put our swords in the hands of our enemies and make them attack us.”
“It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry back to so many different parts of the earth and to conditions of such diverse kinds, the variations of text are so entirely questions of detail, not of essential substance.”

Source : "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 136, 1949.
“Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.”
“Man belongs to the Earth, Earth does not belong to man”

Source : Chief Seattle, “This we know”
“It's not that I'm not a horror fan, it's just that the horror scripts I've been sent have been rubbish and obvious. Because they usually are in horror films - it's just about scare factor. You're always one step ahead, you know who's going to die first, you know who's going to survive, you're going to get a jump every twenty minutes.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“I'll tell you, I'm loving everything Betty White's doing. She's 90!”

Source : Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 24, 2012.
“The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a number of countries, we had radicals and we had Nasserism. Today it's a little bit more complicated.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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