"Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles."

-- Thomas Browne

#Inspirational Quotes #May Quotes #Pebbles Quotes

“The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.”
“If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.”

Source : "America's Best Leaders: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO". Interview with David LaGesse, www.usnews.com. November 19, 2008.
“All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.”
“Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel to her, but it is as if she were invisible, no eyes follow her as she walks. People feel uncomfortable when they are with her. They find it easier to ignore her. A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal. Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.”

Source : Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage
“God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her”
“A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.”
“By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding.”

Source : Robert Hooke (1667). “Micrographia: Or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon”, p.18
“Keep your paws off my fiancÃ¨e, you flea-ridden stray!”

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