"Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all."

-- Alain de Botton

#People Quotes #Tendencies Quotes #Unfortunate Quotes

“The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.”

Source : Peter Høeg (2013). “Tales of the Night”, p.309, Macmillan
“The Sacramento Bee is reporting that Arnold Schwarzenegger is not going to run for governor. You know what would be better? Arnold should do what he does in the Terminator movies. He should go back in time and prevent Gray Davis from ever being born. That way you wouldn't have the problem.”
“As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be prepared.”
“He reclined on a delightfully cushioned lounge in the sprawling ranch Paris had rented. In Dallas, Texas, of all places. Promiscuity had decked himself out, too, wearing a Stetson (weird), no shirt (understandable), unfastened jeans (smart) and cowboy boots (weird again). Dude looked ready to rustle cattle or something.”

Source : Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Secret”, p.115, HQN Books
“It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has a lot in common with the spirit of rock and roll and what Woodstock had going on at the time. We are kind of the new kids on the block and this music isn't accepted by everyone so we are still kind of getting into pop culture and I think its appropriate that this festival is here and kicking down the door.”
“If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.”
“One never knows how loyalty is born.”

Source : "Fictional character: Bertram Cooper". TV Series "Mad Men" ("Nixon vs. Kennedy", 2007), www.imdb.com. (2007–2015).
“I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.”

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