"I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls."

-- Lionel Blue

#Sympathy Quotes #Sticks Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.”
“Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.”
“I do not know whether it is the view of the Court that a judge must be thick-skinned or just thick-headed, but nothing in my experience or observation confirms the idea that he is insensitive to publicity. Who does not prefer good to ill report of his work? And if fame a good public name is, as Milton said, the "last infirmity of noble mind", it is frequently the first infirmity of a mediocre one.”
“Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure”
“[Airline food] is the tiniest food I've ever seen in my entire life. Any kind of meat that you get - chicken, steak, anything - has grill marks on each side, like somehow we'll actually believe there's an open-flame grill in the front of the plane.”
“In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people. . .”
“In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.”
“With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.”

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