"Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts."

-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Men Quotes #Debt Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.”
“He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.43, Granta Books
“The dot that became a speck that became a blob that became a figure that became a boy”

Source : John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.107, Random House
“Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?”
“Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang KÃ¶hler. I need not emphasize my debts to these outstanding personalities. The fundamental ideas of Gestalt theory are the foundation of all our investigations in the field of the will, of affection, and of the personality.”

Source : Kurt. Lewin, (2013). “A Dynamic Theory of Personality - Selected Papers”, p.231, Read Books Ltd
“People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.”
“There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.”
“Everybody gets hurt. Sometimes a big hurt, sometimes a little hurt. But the person who's suffered a lot isn't especially strong. And the person who's been hurt a little isn't especially weak. What's important is being able to get over it.”

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