"The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others"

-- Iain Banks

#Agony Quotes #People Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“Kids below 10 or 12, I think they just need to learn by playing at golf. Later on, in high school, when they develop muscles and everything, that's when they need to see about getting lessons.”
“Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside and fill with physical things and activities that I can divide it up by. so that it grows distict to me and does not vanish when I am not looking.”
“Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.”
“So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?”
“And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mark Haddon from Mar 25, 2012
“The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.”
“There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.”
“[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.”

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