"it came to me, as we sat there, glumly ordering lunch, that for extremely stupid people anti-Semitism was a form of intellectuality, the sole form of intellectuality of which they were capable. It represented, in a rudimentary way, the ability to make categories, to generalize."

-- Mary McCarthy

#Stupid Quotes #Lunch Quotes #People Quotes

“Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. But none of that is important: they did occur, and so be it. From there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild”
“We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.”
“I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.”

Source : Sarah Hall (2010). “The Electric Michelangelo”, p.149, Faber & Faber
“Faith has played a major role in my life. Whenever I feel an obstacle is too great, I can always go to God in prayer and He'll help me through it.”
“The best decision-makers are always armed with the best information and data!”

Source : FaceBook post by George Raveling from Jul 28, 2015
“New tracks like Las Vegas, hell, you could drive off the end of that track and continue safely 20 miles into the desert. But there's not a day goes by I don't think of Scott [Kalitta]. It's still traumatic.”

Source : Source: blog.caranddriver.com
“But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.”
“A good song is a nice set of chords and some good lyrics; a great song is a song that reinvents itself over time. That you can always find something interesting in the more you listen to it - it keeps revealing something to you.”

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