"... no matter how nice you are to some people, they'll turn their back on you the second they get the chance."

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Source : Jeff Kinney (2013). “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck”, p.88, Abrams

Jeff Kinney

#Nice Quotes #People Quotes #Matter Quotes

“If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and purple flame.”

Source : 1947 The Irish.
“There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.”
“Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.”

Source : "Sam Raimi Interviewed - SPIDER-MAN 3" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 22, 2007.
“All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.”

Source : "Risky business". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.
“I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.”

Source : Wole Soyinka, Biodun Jeyifo (2001). “Conversations with Wole Soyinka”, p.58, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.”
“I think Jennifer Saunders would be great in 'Doctor Who.'”
“You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.”

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