"You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!"

-- Martial

#Giving Quotes #Promise Quotes #Wish Quotes

“I haven't always been the guy that walks into a room and automatically the attention is on me. I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.”
“Here's a slightly outrageous tip: Don't respect the text. Just because you've written something down doesn't mean it has a right to exist. If your internal editor can find a better way to say something, junk the original version and go with the new one. If you can't find a better way, and the passage really isn't good, junk it.”
“So if we can't express it or repress it, what do we do when we feel angry? The answer is to recognize the anger, but choose to respond to the situation differently. Easier said than done, right? Can you actually imagine trying to strong-arm your anger into another, more amicable feeling? It would never work. Determination alone won't work. It takes a new intelligence to understand and manage our emotions. By getting your head and heart in coherence and allowing the heart's intelligence to work for you, you can have a realistic chance of transforming your anger in a healthy way.”
“If there are greater activities in Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada, we may expect, within the three months following same, inundation by the earthquakes. But these are to be more in the Southern than the Northern Hemisphere.”
“I think a lot of people go in TV talent shows because they want to be famous and not because it's about the music.”
“It is the effect of scarcity; oneâ€™s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.”
“Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.”
“Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”

Source : Charles Mackay (1996). “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and ConfusiÃ3n de Confusiones”, John Wiley & Sons

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