"You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them."

-- Alain de Botton

#Annoyed Quotes #Honour Quotes

“Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.”
“Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.”

Source : Toni Cade Bambara (2011). “The Salt Eaters”, p.16, Vintage
“Nothing beats a little cash in a bear market, of course, and the oldest form of cash is gold.”
“Iâ€™m not super-comfortable with it. I feel the less you project of yourself the more you can be believable as a character. I also think itâ€™s just better for your own mental health. Then you can be a human being and change your mind and nobody asks you questions about it!”
“[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.”
“There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell.”
“If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they?”

Source : Colin Beavan (2011). “No Impact Man: Saving the planet one family at a time”, p.100, Hachette UK
“Fashion is not like the movie business, where you can have two great projects in a row and then say, "You know what? I'm going to take off eight months." What am I going to tell people? Wear last year's clothes?”

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