"I learned very quickly that to be angry about something does not mean anybody's gonna listen to you."

-- Thomas King

#Mean Quotes #Doe Quotes #Angry Quotes

“Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.”
“You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong, and you don't have to cure cancer. You don't have to get rid of all those cells. Most people have cancer cells swirling around inside them all the time and mostly they don't do any harm, so what we want to do is prevent the cancer from gaining control. We just want to keep it in check for long enough that people die of something else.”
“It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.”
“I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.”
“The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe.”
“Never raise your hand menacingly, but only in a friendly gesture!”

Source : Sophie von La Roche (1991). “The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim: Extracted by a Woman Friend of the Same from Original Documents and Other Reliable Sources”, p.197, SUNY Press
“The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.”

Source : G. Campbell Morgan (2012). “The Acts of The Apostles”, p.493, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.”

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