"It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have."

-- Nadine Gordimer

#Betrayal Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“What money can buy has very little value beyond the necessaries of life.”

Source : George Griffith (2014). “From Pole to Pole”, p.8, eStar Books
“No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution.”
“It is very important to have a correct socio-economic development forecast and plan, in which inflation being a vital investment factor should be the key indicator”
“Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words, but I recognized it. I knew I should make myself get up, write it down, but it was late, and I was exhausted from working all day in the garden, moving rocks.”
“The truth is often one's best shield.”
“I was very pleased with the entire selection process. The manner in which it was conducted included all parts of United States' basketball, from the professional level to the colleges and high schools. Everyone was considered.”
“A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that donâ€™t ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics... and STATISTICS LIE.”
“We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.”

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