"The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders were older than me I could believe in their wisdom, I could believe they had transcended rage and malice and the need to be loved. Now I know better. I look at the faces in newspapers, in magazines, and wonder: what greeds, what furies drive them on?"

-- Margaret Atwood

#Running Quotes #Fall Quotes #Believe Quotes

“The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?”
“I still love my people, not just my family - my people. I feel a huge responsibility for them.”
“The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.”

Source : David Harvey (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press
“I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.”
“Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.”
“The fans appreciate the success the young guys are having now because they know the game is clean, that they've finally got rid of all the performance-enhancing drug issues.”
“I'm just a newsboy who met a President.”
“Reckon it's best if you don't have anyone you care about; then it can't hurt you. Don't have to be afraid of losing someone if you no one to lose.”

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