"I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars."

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Geraldine McCaughrean

#Powerful Quotes #People Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“History is so full of high-level intelligence officials who actually worked for the other side that one is forced to conclude that whether or not top intelligence jobs attract the disloyal, they surely offer incentives to disloyalty.”

Source : Informing Statecraft (1992).
“Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.”

Source : Kent Nerburn (2010). “Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life”, p.18, New World Library
“For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.”
“The light of Christ illuminates the laboratory, his speech is the fount of communication, he makes possible the study of humans in all their interactions, he is the source of all life, he provides the wherewithal for every achievement of human civilization, he is the telos of all that is beautiful. He is, among his many other titles, the Christ of the academic road.”
“We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.”

Source : "Ryan Reynolds: ‘I Have Daddy Issues’". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.
“It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all.”

Source : Fredrika Bremer (1863). “Greece and the Greeks: The Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and Its Islands”, p.213
“Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.”
“NO! Don't force yourself to be alone! If you're alive, you can meet that person, somewhere, someday! The person that will be glad that you're alive! You can't... you can't want yourself to die!! So... live.”

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