"The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings"

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Self Esteem Quotes #Men Quotes #Majority Quotes

“This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you canâ€™t get fresh fruit in the shops.”

Source : Geoff Ryman (2011). “Paradise Tales”, p.240, Small Beer Press
“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.”
“I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Maddie Hasson Talked With Us About 'Twisted'". Interview with Amy Crooks, www.dis411.net. February 5, 2014.
“Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.”

Source : "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.today.com. March 24, 2011.
“I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.”
“I saw a lot of people taking the wrong routes, coming up as a kid, just doing the wrong things.”
“There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.”
“Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.”

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You may also like: