"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again."

-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#Sarcastic Quotes #Good Friend Quotes #Fishing Quotes

“Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.”

Source : Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living”, p.230, M-y books ltd
“Weeds are out most successful cultivated crop.”
“The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.”

Source : Ivan Illich (1976). “Limits to medicine”
“I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.”
“Sometimes, you know, I just feel like I want a Coke, and I drink a Coke.”
“To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.”

Source : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
“For many people in the U.N., the 1990s was the worst decade the organization experienced. This was the decade of Somalia, Srebrenica, of Rwanda and so forth, and yet the reality is, during this period, although there were these awful conflicts, the overall number of wars had gone down.”
“YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING; QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS.”

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