"You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are."

-- Deepak Chopra

#Wish Quotes #Different Quotes #Moments Quotes

“That outgrowth of arrogance comes at a price: some people don't like is. I take responsibility for that.”
“Our vulnerability [to ressentiment], is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them.”
“As a child, I remember asking my parents when I was five years old, "How come if you are not Zionists, you came to the country?" I was surprised at myself that I asked this question. It means that it was always in the air. Then years later I understood it was because of the Holocaust, because they were refugees. They did not come as immigrants and, because of the illusions of the '50s and the late '40s, my mother said, "The world must be better." She could not imagine that it wouldn't be different.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Then it was like a genie out of the bottle and it began to walk all on its own and in directions I did not want.”

Source : "Mikhail Kalashnikov: 'I sleep soundly'" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2003.
“You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.”

Source : Courtney Summers (2013). “What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are”, p.186, Macmillan
“Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture.”
“It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.”
“A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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