"Don't let other people tell you who you are."

-- Diane Sawyer

#People Quotes #Daring Quotes #Who You Are Quotes

“Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.”
“I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.”
“I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.”
“In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East-especially in India-I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening without a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving-it is not in the result of loving.”
“People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.”
“Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis.”
“Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?”

Source : Sir Leslie Stephen (1903). “An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays”
“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.”

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