"Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had conceivably been cheered up, by a short study of the Middle Ages. The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chioang Kaidick, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages."

-- Kingsley Amis

#Cheer Quotes #Believe Quotes #Reality Quotes

“He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.”
“Do you have to have emotional turmoil to create music? I'm not sure because I've never been without it”
“Play Therapy is based upon the fact that play is the child's natural medium of self-expression. It is an opportunity which is given to the child to 'play out' his feelings and problems just as, in certain types of adult therapy, an individual 'talks out' his difficulties.”

Source : Virginia Mae Axline, (2013). “Play Therapy - The Inner Dynamics of Childhood”, p.15, Read Books Ltd
“A writer writes what interests him and what he can manage, and what he can make live, as Flannery O'Connor said. So my reaction to someone saying "You must!" or "You should!" or even "Hey, why don't you?" is basically to sort of shrug and politely walk off and do whatever I want to do. It's nobody else's business, really, and even if I happened to agree with one of those "musts" or "shoulds" what would I do about it, if my heart wasn't in it?”
“I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.”

Source : "'Paranormal Activity' Director Oren Peli Answers Questions From His Fans". Interview with Adam Rosenberg, www.mtv.com. October 29, 2009.
“As you get older one tends to develop what I call a wobble. I would rather eat glass than let that happen to my voice.”

Source : Source: 55plusmag.us
“The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is honourable and becomes imperative partly because it shows exemption from ignoble labour.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.64, Courier Corporation
“Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!”

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