"There are many people who are so inclined to say "no" that the "no" always precedes whatever we say to them. This negative quality makes them so disagreeable that, even if they do what we want them to or agree with what we say, they always lose the pleasure that they might have received had they not started off so badly."

-- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

#People Quotes #Quality Quotes #Negative Quotes

“I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.”
“I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.”

Source : "Cultureshock: Novelist James Herbert and daughter Casey exchange experiences". www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2006.
“As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.”
“If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.”

Source : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.79, Macmillan
“in November you begin to know how long the winter will be.”

Source : "Martha Gellhorn: A Life". Book by Caroline Moorehead, 2003.
“I'm always working. I work wherever I am.”
“I'm in a New York state of mind”
“Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say 'we are not afraid,' and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.”

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