"Carrying a knife has come from my fear of what Âsomeone might do to me. So I'll do Âsomething to them first. All you have to do is get a hint of danger and I'll all-out attack. There won't be waiting about to see if this person will attack me first."

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Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Jermaine Jenas

#Waiting Quotes #Danger Quotes

“Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to reconcile order which is not oppression with freedom which is not license.”

Source : Leo Strauss (2013). “Persecution and the Art of Writing”, p.37, University of Chicago Press
“I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem.”

Source : "Fictional character: Tommy". "Tommy Boy", www.imdb.com. 1995.
“Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow. We are nothing but what we derive from the air we breathe, the climate we inhabit, the government we obey, the system of religion we profess, and the nature of our employment.”
“A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.”
“I certainly dont feel like Ive been the victim of typecasting.”
“To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation to deny it. Something politicians couldn't do. Honesty, the courage for honesty. With others and yourself.”

Source : Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.366, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.”
“Some guys like to undermine a girl's self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn't hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.”

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