"My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else."

-- Ali Smith

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Scotland Quotes

“I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.”
“The truth is I'm not good at enjoying life.”

Source : Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.37, Bloomsbury Publishing
“There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.”
“I am interested in the creativity of the criminal attitude because I recognize in it the existence of a special condition of crazy creativity. A creativity without morals fired only by the energy of freedom and the rejection of all codes and laws. For freedom rejects the dictated roles of the law and of the imposed order and for this reason is isolated.”

Source : "Beuys: Tracce in Italia". Book by Germano Celant, 1978.
“He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.”
“I love Barbados, it's really relaxing.”
“When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done French and German. I picked up Italian, just sort of blasted through the exams, [and then] took off overseas, because I wanted to be an actor. I thought, "I'm just not academic." I'm not very competitive, in terms of acting. But since going back to university, I've realized, I am highly competitive.”
“If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all”

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