"What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?"

-- Henrik Ibsen

#Self Quotes #Differences Quotes

“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.”
“Treat everyone on the organization with respect and dignity whether it be the janitor or the president.”

Source : Richard Moran (2009). “Nuts, Bolts and Jolts”, p.211, iUniverse
“We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.”
“Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.295, A&C Black
“To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.”
“Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.”
“Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!”
“She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.”

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