"Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. Use is a dirty word only when theres an imbalance in the relationship."

-- Warren Farrell

#Dirty Quotes #Men Quotes #Worry Quotes

“The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological.Â The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen could -- or should -- be the property of the state.”
“Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactments of conscious selves. We control very little of what we most care about; many of our most fateful decisions are made unbeknownst to ourselves. Yet we insist that mankind can achieve what we cannot: conscious mastery of its existence. This is the creed of those who have given up an irrational belief in God for an irrational faith in mankind.”

Source : "Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (The Deception: At the Masked Ball)". Book by John Gray (p. 38), August 29, 2002.
“Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.”
“What's love got to do with it?”
“All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.”
“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.78, Pan Macmillan
“I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.”

Source : Kathleen Norris (1997). “The Cloister Walk”, p.52, Penguin
“Training is principally an act of faith. The athlete must believe in its efficacy; he must believe that through training he will become fitter and stronger; that by constant repetition of the same movements he will become more skilful and his muscles more relaxed...He must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it.”

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