"If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Hurt Quotes #Joy Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.”
“Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.”
“Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.36, Jazzybee Verlag
“A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.”
“The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.”

Source : "PM" with Eddie Mair, BBC4, August 24, 2006.
“We're busy being busy. Distraction is a dangerously deceptive saboteur of our goals, because we are not present to how much time we lose. We're distracted by things like being in meetings or on conference calls, or we get on Facebook related to business and the updates of friends captivate our attention and an hour goes by before we wake up.”
“There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.”
“I never thought of politics as a profession.”

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