"Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories."

-- Robert Crais

#Drama Quotes #Past Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“The richer people, when they get another $100,000, or another million, or 10 million, don't tend to spend it as much as the poorer people would if they got another $100 or $1,000 or $5,000. All the empirical evidence suggests that the rich tend to consume a lower proportion of income than middle and lower-income people.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten, Eternal Wisdom can never die.”
“If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved down my throat, being filled with custard by representatives of the people of China.”

Source : Speech to the Conservative Party Conference, October 13, 1988.
“I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!”
“Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.”
“I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?”

Source : George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.55, The Floating Press
“The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.”

Source : Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.220, Grove Press
“I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course of a decade have probably stopped thinking all together. The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.”

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