"I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority."

-- Shirley Hazzard

#Over You Quotes #Authority Quotes #Advantage Quotes

“I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's about not rewarding your children with food, not always celebrating with food. I do think it's important to find other ways to comfort our children and ourselves, to work other ways of celebrating and rewarding.”
“Leadership: Lions led by donkeys.”
“...smile first, then speak.”

Source : George Saunders (2007). “The Braindead Megaphone”, p.213, Penguin
“Iâ€™ve kissed girls before, itâ€™s fun!”
“I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.”
“In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur.”

Source : Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.35, Grove Press
“[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have seen at least one of his plays.”

Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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