"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."

-- W. H. Auden

#Differences Quotes #Taste Quotes #Irritated Quotes

“Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories”
“I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week.”
“There are enough bad films coming out of this town already without the process being more democratized. I'm a guy who loves democracy. I'm all for democratizing any process, but I think there is a price to pay for that.”
“Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.”

Source : Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement”, University of Chicago Press
“Since I started CrossFit, I've read and heard about the critics talk about how unsafe it is, and my only response to that is any form of exercise can be unsafe if you don't have the proper coaching, education and guidance.”

Source : "I Drank the CrossFit Kool-Aid" by Bob Harper, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.
“But however mysterious is nature , however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science , the patronage and the success of quacks and quackeries are infinitely more wonderful than those of honest and laborious men of science and their careful experiments.”

Source : P. T. Barnum (2013). “The Humbugs of the World”, p.149, Lulu.com
“The combination of an out-of-control tabloid press and a readership that thrills to the destruction of the England head coach is something no other country can offer. Scolari was driven out; Steve McClaren's personal life made the front pages. Neither of them even held the job. Then there was the fake-sheikhing of Sven-GÃ¶ran Eriksson. That a newspaper should so brilliantly and deliberately destabilise the national head coach in a World Cup year is something no other sporting nation would consider.”
“Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.”

Source : "Keeping Politics out of the Court". The New York Times, December 09, 1984.

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