"It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all."

-- Ann Leckie

#People Quotes #Want Quotes #Small Things Quotes

“A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.”
“I've found, however, that real change only comes when we let go of the struggle, when we stop trying, and that the greatest key to healing our vision is also the simplest one: expanding our awareness.”

Source : Jacob Liberman (2011). “Take Off Your Glasses and See: A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight”, p.97, Harmony
“I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it.”
“When it comes to wheat, my main goal is to inform people, including farmers, that the prevailing notion that cutting fat and eating whole grains will make you healthy is not only wrong, it's destructive.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“I don't have to many friends, I have 5 or 6 boys in my life that never change no matter what.”

Source : Source: www.behindthehype.com
“I think that there’s too much sugar in the world and not enough salt. Kids want to be challenged. Humans want to aspire to something. You don’t win in life and you don’t win in athletics with softness or selfishness.”
“Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.”
“Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown prose that would leave the reader puzzled and cowed. He should then here and there smuggle in a few sensible, straightforward sentences all could understand. The reader would feel that since he has grasped this part, he must have also grasped the rest. He would then congratulate himself and praise the author.”

Source : "The Seen and the Unseen. Part I. On the Economics of Protecting Employment" by Anthony de Jasay, www.econlib.org. December 6, 2004.

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