"I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions."

-- J. B. Priestley

#People Quotes #Fancy Quotes #Hierarchy Quotes

“The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, 'The signs of a hypocrite are three: 1. Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie. 2. Whenever he promises, he always breaks it (his promise). 3. If you trust him, he proves to be dishonest (if you keep something as a trust with him, he will not return it).'”
“Early on, girls begin to menstruate, which is dramatic but not obvious to their playmates. They grow taller and rounder, but underneath their makeup they are still recognizably themselves. For boys it is far more disorienting. Puberty comes later, sometimes much later, and its delay is humiliating. While the tall round girls are getting themselves up like grown women, the prepubertal boys, with their featureless, hairless bodies, are just dirty little kids who could pass for the children of the hypermature girls.”
“The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.”

Source : "Andrew Johnson, Plebeian and Patriot". Book by Robert Watson Winston, 1928.
“Leon Golub was a painter. He was an artist struggling to make it in the New York City art world, but at the same time he was a very political guy, and engaged in the world around him. In the film, we saw how that world eventually encroached into his painting. One of my favorite lines in the film was how he had to be more precise, 'but now the pants have wrinkles, I hated to do it, but I had to do it.'”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“The Fed has a lot of power in the economy because it has a big impact on the supply and cost of credit, that is, interest rates. It also plays a key role in supervising banks and historically has seemed to take it easy on the banks when it shouldn't have, such as in the lead up to the financial crisis.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“At the soul level, we get precisely what we need in our lives for our spiritual growth. How we judge what we get determines whether we experience life as painful or joyful.”

Source : Colin Tipping (2011). “Radical Self-Forgiveness: The Direct Path to True Self-Acceptance (Large Print 16pt)”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com
“There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.”
“The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up whatâ€™s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.”

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