"We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands."

-- George Eliot

#Lying Quotes #Humility Quotes #Hands Quotes

“What you learn from bad habits and in bad society, you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. I tell you in all sincerity, not as in the excitement of speech, but as I would confess and have confessed before God, I would give my right hand if I could forget that which I have learned in bad society.”
“My cell phone fell off my lap. I was reaching for it in the back.”
“There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.”
“I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?”

Source : David Byrne (2017). “How Music Works”, p.365, Three Rivers Press
“The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.”
“Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.”

Source : "You Are Not Your Brain: Interview With Alva Noe, Ph.D". Interview with Deepak Chopra on Sirius XM Radio, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2009.
“There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.”
“I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .”

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