"I got tired of seeing otherwise innocent young kids from all walks of life getting criminal records for, in effect, doing nothing more than millions of other people in society were doing with alcohol."

-- Ron Clarke

#Tired Quotes #Kids Quotes #People Quotes

“I lost all respect for angstroms.”

Source : "Nobel Lectures, Physics 1981-1990", Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Gösta Ekspång, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, www.nobelprize.org. 1993.
“Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.”

Source : Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher
“I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the whole time, and so on. This was an interesting experience, which has had some beneficial effects for me.”
“Marriage is great. It'll calm you down - that and neutering.”
“I don't really see myself as a big supermodel.”
“Perhaps I am following in the footsteps of FranÃ§ois Mitterrand, who really did want to shape Europe. My predecessors, by contrast, thought it was best to say nothing at all and to keep all their options open. That may sound like a tactical approach, but perhaps it was simply because they didn't have any ideas for Europe at all.”
“I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.”

Source : Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan
“Your life~the way it looks today is a result of your choices...What will you choose today for your tomorrows?”

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