"And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life."

-- Richard Yates

#Funny Things Quotes #Years Quotes #Fifty Quotes

“When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.”
“Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.”
“When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust.”

Source : Elizabeth Streb (2010). “Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero”, p.51, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.”

Source : "Small Talk: Eric Bristow" by Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.
“We didnâ€™t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldnâ€™t waste an afternoon on it”
“Traveling in the segregated South for black people was humiliating. The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to black people and white people that blacks were so subhuman and so inferior that we could not even use public facilities that white people used.”
“When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.”

Source : "When Corporations Rule the World". Book by David Korten, January 1, 1995.
“They tryna shoot down my flight before it lands”

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