"An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides."

-- Edwin Meese

#Home Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Giving Quotes

“It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge. With revenge, we return evil for evil, but with ingratitude, we return evil for good.”
“A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.”

Source : George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation
“Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.”
“I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.”
“Unlike the sale of a commodity, the giving of a gift tends to establish a relationship between the parties involved. When gifts circulate within a group, their commerce leaves a series of interconnected relationships in its wake, and a kind of decentralized cohesiveness emerges.”

Source : Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.20, Vintage
“It is annoying. The work we do is not getting the credit it deserves because we are not winning silverware. It is unfair because I think we have more merit as a club than those who have built their teams with millions of pounds whereas Arsenal have brought in young footballers, who have come here to play a certain kind of football and who have developed.”

Source : "Without our injuries Arsenal would be top of league, says Samir Nasri", April 20, 2010.
“We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.”
“Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more profound and lasting sense of confidence, peace, and well-being. Among sentient beings, human beings appear to stand alone in their ability to recognize the necessity to forge a bond between reason, emotion, and their instinct to survive, and in doing so create a universe-not only for themselves and the human generations that follow, but also for all creatures who feel pain, fear and suffering-in which we are all able to coexist contentedly and peaceably.”

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