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Anneli Rufus
"Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating." --
Source : "The joys of solitude" by Phil Daoust, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2010.
Anneli Rufus
#Mean Quotes
#Tired Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
“You start to worry about what happens if you don't win. You start to fear man because you want praise from man. You start thinking about how winning will lead to more money. There are a lot of sin issues inside of that. So now when I go into competition, I have to take my thoughts captive and use God's Word to fight that battle.”
Source : "A conversation with U.S. Olympic gold medalist diver David Boudia". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.
“The time has come for us to stand a little taller, to lift our eyes and stretch our minds to a greater comprehension and understanding of the grand millennial mission of this, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.”
“Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.”
“It's all about how I feel about things. I never expect much, I always felt like I obey my heart.”
“Civilization has taught man how to live in dense crowds, and by that very fact those crowds are likely ultimately to constitute a majority of the world’s population. Already there are many who prefer this crowded life, but there are others who do not, and these will gradually be eliminated. Life in the crowded conditions of cities has many unattractive features, but in the long run these may be overcome, not so much by altering them, but simply by changing the human race into liking them.”
“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.”
“Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.”
“I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.”
