"There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate."

-- Stockwell Day

#Believe Quotes #Moving Quotes #Riding Quotes

“Sports are a microcosm of society.”
“So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone”
“It's always a better choice to write a new book than it is to keep pounding your head against the submissions wall with a book that's just not happening. The next book you write could be the book, the one that isn't a fight to get representation for at all.”
“Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of 'others' and 'our' problems are being increasingly erased.”
“A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.”
“If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.”

Source : Catherine Booth (1990). “For God Alone”, Ambassador Productions Limited
“The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.”
“Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea â€” whether itâ€™s about politics or sports â€” what do we do? We love it perhaps more than we should. We prize it more than it is worth. And most frequently, we have trouble letting go of it because we canâ€™t stand the idea of its loss. What are we left with then? An ideology â€” rigid and unyielding.”

Source : "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions". Book by Dan Ariely, February 19, 2008.

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