#People Quotes #Details Quotes #Natural Quotes
“London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense, though it is really basically only a collection of scandal-mongering boroughs, vying with each other, ugly and dull, without any monuments except interminable docks.”
“In life, nothing happens to you. It happens for you.”
“I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.”
“Happy music doesn't tend to move me much”
“I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.”
“Thoughts disentangle themselves when they pass through the lips and fingertips.”
“Healthy self esteem is paying attention to how others make us feel, and then choosing those with whom we spend time.”
Source : Catherine Cardinal (1998). “The Ten Commandments of Self-Esteem”, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“The international community has to overcome its differences and find solutions to the conflicts of today in South Sudan, Syria, Central African Republic and elsewhere. Non-traditional donors need to step up alongside traditional donors. As many people are forcibly displaced today as the entire populations of medium-to-large countries such as Colombia or Spain, South Africa or South Korea,”
James Gobbo
John Yu
Paul Hasluck Historian
