"Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore."

-- Cecil Beaton

#Boredom Quotes #World Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.”
“Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.”

Source : Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.325, Simon and Schuster
“O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.”
“And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.”
“The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.”

Source : René Jules Dubos (1980). “The Wooing of Earth”, Scribner Book Company
“Every business is a service business. Does your service put a smile on the customer's face?”
“As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they call themselves doesnâ€™t matter to me. The world is full of suffering, distress, violence and catastrophes. Students must decide: does something concern you or not? I say: look around, analyze the problems, ask yourself what you can do and set out on the work!”
“Who is of so little faith that in a moment of great disaster or heartbreak has not called to his God?”

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