"I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it."

-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Kindness Quotes #Guy Quotes #Demand Quotes

“All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.”
“Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians.”
“The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.”
“The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order.”
“Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are meaningless events. It would be more difficult to see how beautiful and amazingly intelligent emotions can be, and how powerfully they can solve problems for us.”
“Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.”
“I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.”
“They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.”

Source : Tami Hoag (2004). “Kill the Messenger”, p.397, Bantam

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