"I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave."

-- David Guterson

#Grew Up Quotes #Grew Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.”

Source : Walter Kirn (2002). “Up in the Air: A Novel”, p.119, Anchor
“A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.”
“The natural response to evaluation is to feel judged. We have to mature to a place where we respond to it with gratitude, and love feedback.”
“The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .”
“Software engineering is the establishment and use of sound engineering principles to obtain economically software that is reliable and works on real machines efficiently.”

Source : "Software Engineering" by Friedrich L. Bauer in "Information Processing: Proceedings of the IFIP Congress, 1971" (p. 71), 1972.
“I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.”

Source : "The Life and Letters of Sir Austen Chamberlain: Vol. II" by Sir Charles Petrie, Cassell, (p. 263), 1940.
“There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.”
“As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.”

Source : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (Illustrated): Historical Novel - A Tale of the Christ”, p.225, e-artnow

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