"Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?"

-- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

#Giving Quotes #Mind Quotes #Compliment Quotes

“Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.”

Source : Wendy Weir, Jerry Garcia (Spirit) (1999). “In the Spirit: Conversations with the Spirit of Jerry Garcia”, Harmony
“I don't have a problem with my temper.”
“I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.”
“The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.”
“Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.”
“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.”
“If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends”

Source : Gordon Brown's speech to foreign finance and environment ministers on climate change, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2005.

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