"But what we know, we who are either observers of a business we once were in and loved, or are people within it now, our business as a whole, when it is not obsessed with the business of business, is eaten up with a form of cultural conservatism which is truly amazing. Indeed, more often than not it is eaten up with pure reactionary-ism."

-- Hodding Carter III

#People Quotes #Isms Quotes #Obsessed Quotes

“As long as I look into the muzzles, nothing can happen to me. Only if he pulls lead am I in danger.”
“King RenÃ© of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to acquire the surnom of the Good. He was brave in war, delighted in tournaments and wrote on them, instituted festivals and processions, partly religious and partly burlesque, was a fond husband, a romantic lover, a good painter for that age, and a true philosopher.”
“I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.”
“I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.”
“[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.”
“Hillary Clinton is going to build up opportunity. Donald Trump is going to tear it down if he becomes president.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem like tiny dots in a mosaic, but each had a separate narrative starting a few months or a lifetime earlier and finishing that day in the New York City Marathon, the race with 37,000 stories.”

Source : Mark Sutcliffe (2013). “Why I Run: The Remarkable Journey of the Ordinary Runner”, p.70, eBookIt.com
“When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.”

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