"When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated."

-- Hugh Sidey

#Country Quotes #Travel Quotes #Humble Quotes

“Pride that you express to others is ego. Pride that you express silently to yourself is real pride.”
“There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.”
“[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for mayor and he didn't consult me about running for governor. It would be nice to be asked. ... You know, I've been my mother's daughter, my father's daughter, the wife of my husband, the mother of my six children, and grandmother to my eleven grandchildren, but I have never been me. But I am now because I went away. I am a changed woman.”
“After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.”

Source : Robert Aickman (2014). “The Unsettled Dust”, p.201, Faber & Faber
“Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little selves and making us think of ourselves as the lowest and the least, and, therefore, it is all good. Here we find that JnÃ¢na, Bhakti, and Karma - all come to one point.”
“Wild men are so enormously attractive.”
“A lot of people [are] saying civil union," Faried told KDVR. "I don't like it being called that because I can get married to a female and it can be called a marriage. Why can't a female be married to a female and male be married to a male and it be called a marriage? You still have the same thing, same love and happiness.”

Source : "Kenneth Faried, Denver Nuggets Star, Supports Gay Marriage And His Two Moms", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.
“I think if I had known then what I know now, I would have been a lot more relaxed. I'm really happy with the result and I think Bjorn helped me take it in directions I couldn't have taken it in myself. It is a scary thing to be putting it in other people's hands, but it's really necessary sometimes.”

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