"Callous greed grows pious very fast."

-- Lillian Hellman

#Greed Quotes #Callous Quotes #Grows Quotes

“Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse...I've seen ultrasounds...you know that those babies are real.”
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.”
“I train for about 30 hours a week. That's at least four hours every day. I swim at seven most mornings. It's got to be your life. You've got to fit everything around it. If that's all you know and it's what you love to do then it's got loads of positives as well.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.”
“Politicians are leeches, mostly.”

Source : "Why Honor Politicians?". mises.org. February 24, 2004.
“I think people are just shocked to see me walking around. It's weird. When they see you on TV, they don't expect to see you in a store.”
“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain. (p. 225)”

Source : André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.225, Macmillan
“I love people who have such passion for complete nonsense.”

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