"Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change."

-- Carol Emshwiller

#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Secret Quotes

“We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.”
“One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.”
“I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.”
“I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow the concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged, and the planned have the right to live.”
“Most of us don't work out what we want. And most of us end up with lopsided lives as a result.”
“Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.”
“If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.”

Source : Speaking of the Puritans at Hampton Court Conference, January 16, 1604.
“On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money.”

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