"But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality."

-- Laura Lippman

#Thinking Quotes #Lines Quotes #Facts Quotes

“I want to do that thing rich people do where they turn money into more money.”
“Though Love be deeper, Friendship is more wide.”

Source : Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1921). “The Poems of Corinne Roosevelt Robinson”
“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a bookâ€”that string of confused, alien ciphersâ€”shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”
“I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.”
“Lord Of The Rings' fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.”
“Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.”

Source : Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
“It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.”
“I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.”

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