"The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern."

-- Edna Ferber

#Sheep Quotes #Goats Quotes #Busybodies Quotes

“Its easier to get a divorce than pass the driving test. Now its just a basic form-filling exercise.”
“You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or youll become empty.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I can hold a note and I know I'm not ugly so, in ways, that's enough.”
“You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs.”
“So, the first thing we should introspect - are we concerned about ourselves ? All the time do we think that we are suffering, we have this problem, that problem, or this should be done, that should be done. If the attention is on that, that all the time you are worried about yourself, then you cannot break, you cannot break through this shell of your being which is under the domination of your mental selfishness or self centeredness.”
“The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only for their own sake. For these self- centered individuals, the most precious things in the world is their â€˜self.â€™ Like a cancer that eats and destroys its own cells, the self-centered individual is slowly dying inwardly.”
“What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?”
“If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.”

Source : P. L. Travers (2014). “Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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