"Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui."

-- Alexander Pushkin

#Good Friend Quotes #People Quotes #Ennui Quotes

“The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.”
“The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.”
“I definitely gravitate towards things like vegetables, chicken, brown rice, but I don't deprive myself of anything. If I want a Sprinkles cupcake, I'm having a Sprinkles cupcake. But I'm not going to have one every day... you just have to have a sensible outlook on all of it.”
“There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.”

Source : "A single mum and the first female face of trade unionism - meet Frances O'Grady, Queen of the TUC" by Kevin Maguire, www.mirror.co.uk. July 16, 2012.
“Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous inventory of one's psyche, considering each aspect in detail. No matter: we have to say 'fine' out of politeness and civility and change the subject, or else ruminate the question during our whole lives and reserve our reply for afterward.”

Source : Pascal Bruckner (2011). “Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy”, p.19, Princeton University Press
“What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.”
“I'm a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.”

Source : "The Newsroom". www.npr.org. July 16, 2012.
“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.”

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