"If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me."

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Source : Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

Karl Kraus

#Trust Quotes #Mean Quotes #Vain Quotes

“We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.”
“You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.”
“The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.”

Source : Sarah Ferguson (2010). “What I Know Now: Simple Lessons Learned the Hard Way”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
“Holy Week challenges us to step outside ourselves so as to attend to the needs of others: those who long for a sympathetic ear, those in need of comfort or help. We should not simply remain in our own secure world, that of the ninety-nine sheep who never strayed from the fold, but we should go out, with Christ, in search of the one lost sheep, however far it may have wandered.”
“People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.”
“You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.”

Source : Robert B. Parker (2013). “A Catskill Eagle (A Spenser Mystery)”, p.171, Hachette UK
“To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.”
“I might as well be gay. And not just because I love rhinestones and Barbara Streisand. But because Im a sensitive person who is supportive of gay people the same way Im sensitive to grossly obese people and ugly people.”

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