"Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand."

-- Ziad K. Abdelnour

#Distance Quotes #People Quotes #Needs Quotes

“People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist industry right here in the States which builds stereo gear to a standard you wouldn't believe. Tubed amplifiers which cost more than a house. Speakers taller than me. Cables thicker than a garden hose. Some army guys had that stuff. I'd heard it on bases around the world. Wonderful. But they were wasting their money. Because the best stereo in the world is free. Inside your head. It sounds as good as you want it to. As loud as you want it to be.”

Source : Lee Child (2006). “Killing Floor: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.48, Penguin
“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument...”
“I just love getting dirty.”
“Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.”
“I donâ€™t show my body for a good cause... if one day in a concert I pull down my pants, I would leave without job to those reporters who say Iâ€™m a woman”
“Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.”
“The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.”
“A tendency toward enthusiasm and a chivalrous instinct have more than once been weighed as evidence of a lack of judgment.”

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