"Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?"

-- Dick Gregory

#People Quotes #Moral Quotes #Manners Quotes

“Royce turned to Hadrian. â€œItâ€™s supposed to make them look tough, but all it really does is make it easy to identify them as thieves for the rest of their lives. Painting a red hand on everyone is pretty stupid when you think about it.â€ â€œThat tattoo is supposed to be a hand?â€ Hadrian asked. â€œI thought it was a little red chicken. But now that you mention it, a hand does make more sense.â€ Royce looked back at Will and tilted his head to one side. â€œDoes kinda look like a chicken.”
“I took the pieces you threw away, put them together by night and day. Washed by the rain. Dried by the sun. A million pieces all in one.”

Source : Howard Finster, Glen C. Davies, James Arient (2009). “Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster”, Krannert Art Museum
“In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.”

Source : Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.126, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.”
“Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours.”
“You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.”
“It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?”

Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1986). “Teacher”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“Have you ever analyzed things to the degree where you canâ€™t really remember the difference between whatâ€™s real and what youâ€™ve created in your head?”

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