"If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them."

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Source : William Deresiewicz (2011). “A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter”, p.28, Penguin

William Deresiewicz

#Hurt Quotes #People Quotes #Chance Quotes

“Classic Recipe for Roast Beef: 1 large Roast of beef 1 small Roast of beef Take the two roasts and put them in the oven. When the little one burns, the big one is done.”
“Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.”
“I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.”
“In that instant when I had seen... the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas of being; as though in the depths of the hypercosmical past and the hypercosmical future also, yet coexistent in eternity, lay cosmos beyond cosmos. ...”

Source : Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, Courier Corporation
“I just got an apartment here in Nashville, and I invested in a Queen-sized bed because I'm like, "I haven't had a big bed since I was a kid." I woke up this morning on one side, like, in "coffin position."”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A pessimistic attitude can never create the calm and serene smile which blossoms on the lips of Bodhisattvas and all those who obtain the way.”
“Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.”
“A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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