"Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately."

-- Vincent de Paul

#Wisdom Quotes #Given Quotes #Disheartened Quotes

“I believe Korea is making the best movies. Only in Korea - you can do whatever you want to without any rating system or whatever. They can make world-class karate movies and make lots of money, which is very important.”
“Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.”

Source : Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.10, Ballantine Books
“I don't wanna go throught the motions I don't wanna go one more day Without your all-consuming Passion inside of me I don't wanna spend my whole life asking What if I had given everything? Instead of going through the motions.”

Source : Matthew West, Angela Thomas (2011). “The Story of Your Life”, p.174, Harvest House Publishers
“Uh, stay fat people - That's my motto. It's no picnic!”
“For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.”
“Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private industry, and academia, it has been at its best and generated the greatest economic, social, and technological benefits since it was 'liberated' by the hordes of 'geeks' who were originally hired to run it by employers who were not themselves conversant with computers, and couldn't tell when their employees were exchanging official traffic or trading dirty jokes and recipes for ***** brownies.”
“Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.”
“Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.”

Source : Allan Massie (2010). “A Question Of Loyalties”, p.30, Canongate Books

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