"If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it."

-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

#Hands Quotes #Would Be Quotes #World Quotes

“I knew the men were probably terrible people who whistled at pretty girls, treated their wives like servants, and voted for Nixon every chance they got, but as far as I was concerned, they beat the hell out of a Volvo-load of liberals for hard work and good times.”

Source : James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.40, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“Pain is just another form of information.”

Source : Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.336, Pan Macmillan
“Polls show that most people in the world favor humbler, more compassionate solutions to our common problems. Not only favor them but, resolving to love in a more complete and final way, try to put them into action. A society based on universal compassion is not just our only hope; it is an evolutionary imperative.”

Source : Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.386, ReadHowYouWant.com
“We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.”
“To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.”
“Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.”

Source : "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa, 1952.
“Dear Mom and Dad, Leave $50,000 in a bag under the bridge on Decatur Street. If there is no bridge on Decatur Street, please build one.”
“When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15.”

Source : "Colombian Singer Juanes Is a Savvy Businessman". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block and Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 26, 2007.

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