"Maturityâ€¦ Is The Ability To Do Something Even Though Your Parents Have Recommended It."

-- Paul Watzlawick

#Maturity Quotes #Parent Quotes #Ability Quotes

“What is meant by: "We mustn't give in to the terrorists"? We gave in to them the moment the first bombs fell on Afghanistan.”

Source : Terry Jones (2009). “Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror: Observations and Denunciations by a Founding Member of Monty Python”, p.6, Nation Books
“A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.”
“Itâ€™s Fitzgeraldâ€™s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.”
“Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.”
“All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above-- Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.”
“Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.”
“I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.”
“Too many people are apt to redeem their profits too quickly. In a huge bull market they wind up with piddling profits, only to watch their former holdings soar. That usually prompts them into making mistakes later when, believing that the market owes them some money, they buy at the wrong time at much higher levels.”

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