"There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of oneâ€™s mind and alter oneâ€™s whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later:"

-- George Orwell

#Attitude Quotes #Book Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I had to do something for the country.”
“Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.”
“I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.”
“It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.”
“We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.”
“Tohru: Shigure is always smiling. But, I wonder if I gave him some problems with my request. Yuki: The only ones who can truly understand what Shigure is thinking is Hatori and... a few other people. Someone has said this before. It is said that he is like a "tide..." A tide that carries you away when you get too close to it. The tide touches your feet... But when you reach down to touch it, it will have already departed. It is within your reach, yet you may never catch it...”
“Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of the Troubles.”

Source : "Manning and Snowden light path for the US to return to its better self" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.
“I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.”

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