"If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse."

-- Theodore Dalrymple

#Way Quotes #Century Quotes #Ingenuity Quotes

“Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.”
“Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that overlap in the sets of their attributes. ... Contrary to the assertions of Lakoff and some of the cognitive metaphor theorists, people can read through to an underlying mapping, but only when the surface metaphor is new to them.”
“If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.”

Source : Marya Mannes (1986). “The Best of Marya Mannes”
“You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so...”

Source : Michelle Moran (2011). “The Egyptian Royals Collection: Three Historical Novels by Michelle Moran: Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen, and Cleopatra's Daughter”, p.151, Broadway Books
“I have a deep, deep love for sneakers.”
“For someone whoâ€™s made it clear that her life is superior to every other studentâ€™s at this school, you sure make it a habit of pursuing every facet of our boring, worthless lives.”
“I am really glad women are speaking out.”

Source : "Danielle Brooks, Gabourey Sidibe and More Dance in Lingerie to Prove 'This Body Is Beautiful'". Interview with Colleen Kratofil, people.com. October 04, 2016.
“What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.”

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