"What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it."

-- Madame de Stael

#Character Quotes #What Matters Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I'm sometimes afraid I'll cross a line and it'll be difficult to come back, say, to dinner.”
“My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves.”

Source : Jeff Koons, Eckhard Schneider, Rudolf Sagmeister (2001). “Jeff Koons”, Kunsthaus Bregenz
“Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.”
“She's not impressed by your fancy car. She got a body so she's snotty and she don't care who you are. So don't get mad and dis her reputation Callin' her a floozy, any conversation. Mad grammar, backstabber, girls they wanna be her. But like Stevie Wonder, none of y'all can see her!”
“An entrepreneur is born with the mentality to take risks, though there are several important characteristics: courage, faith in yourself, and above all, even when you fail, to learn from failure and get up and try again.”
“Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.”
“[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.”
“How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.”

Source : Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.326, Macmillan

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