"I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I am insignificant."

-- Janet Burroway

#Dull Quotes #Judgment Quotes #Insignificant Quotes

“When we think about immigration, we have to understand there are folks all around the world who still see America as the land of promise. And they provide us energy, and they provide us innovation. And they start companies like Intel and Google, and we want to encourage that.”
“You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist. I have enough of my own.”
“It is very important that you should choose the person you will marry and stay with that person. There are many people now who believe in serial love, loving one person after another. I donâ€™t think that is good for our mental health. I think we should get it over with. Love is like measles, you know. You only get it once in your lifetime and you are immune forever. I am very happy to say that is what happened to me. I am completely immune to any temptation. All men who have passed my life after I got married might as well have been sticks of furniture.”
“If you get three women and a dog together and they all mate together they're not gonna have a baby”
“Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking heads, but the principle is exactly the same... The minority gives way not because it is convinced that it is wrong, but because it is convinced that it is a minority.”

Source : James Fitzjames Stephen (1991). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: And Three Brief Essays”, p.70, University of Chicago Press
“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”
“Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.”
“You have seen me at my worst and at my weakest. Let me show you my best.”

Source : Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.281, Penguin

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