"If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser."

-- Ian Hacking

#People Quotes #Bombs Quotes #Killing Quotes

“I used to sell ***** to my son's mom's new husband. And then I would take that money and give it to her as child support.”
“Thou shalt not kill: the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk next to that commandment saying, â€œUnless you walk on all four and have fur, feathers, horns, beaks or gills.”
“I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.”
“I wondered what Iâ€™d end up looking like once I bloomed. I couldnâ€™t even guess. If I had to be stuck in my own skinny, gawky, coltish body foreverâ€¦ well. It probably wouldnâ€™t be so bad. I wouldnâ€™t mind a little more in the chest, though. But wild horses wouldnâ€™t drag that out of me. Ever.”
“I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.”

Source : "Organizational Culture and Leadership: A Dynamic View". Book by Edgar Schein, 1985.
“In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.”

Source : Silas House, Neela Vaswani (2012). “Same Sun Here”, p.7, Candlewick Press
“If America is ever going to be saved, it will be through a church flowing both in the message of the cross and the miracle of the resurrection.”

Source : Rod Parsley (1993). “My Promise is the Palace: So What Am I Doing in the Pit?”

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