"No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man."

-- Louisa May Alcott

#Men Quotes #Guilt Quotes #Pity Quotes

“Why is an accountant who knows the regulation and codes and takes advantage of tax loopholes that save you thousands of dollars each year good, But SEO's who take advantages of loopholes and flaws in Google's algorithm to bring you traffic that makes you thousands of dollars bad?”
“As my mother says, You give back, you don't give up. You can always choose to help others. If you do, it will change you.”
“We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.”
“The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.”

Source : Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.105, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Whereas a man is entitled to marry three more times and that fosters great abuse, even scholars accept that. So certainly since the 1980s Shari'a courts have been established and they allow for women to go to them and they basically grant them annulment. It's not a civil divorce, they don't have the right to grant alimony or maintenance or custody.”
“Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their Philosophy of the World.... Carefully notated structures and interplay morph effortlessly into free improvisation that is intelligent and expressive, but never self-indulgent. Also featuring intense lyrics sung with their clear and melodic voices, the two women make transcendent chamber music outside of any genre.”
“We did what we are supposed to. We protected home. We have to try to do it again Thursday night.”
“The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.”

Source : Ogden Nash (1942). “Good intentions”, Little, Brown

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