"I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist."

--

George Carlin

#Thinking Quotes #Realist Quotes #Cynic Quotes

“Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency.”

Source : "A Muhammad cartoon a day" by Daniel Pipes, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.
“Familiarity breeds contentment.”

Source : George Ade (1920). “Hand-made Fables”
“Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.”
“Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.”

Source : Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.115, B&H Publishing Group
“At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous”
“The conquest of the outskirts of the atmosphere, and eventually space, is a revolutionary event, comparable only to the transition of the aquatic animals to the land in geologic times.”
“Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.”
“Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.”

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