"My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them."

-- Natascha McElhone

#Hate Quotes #Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.”

Source : E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.5161, Delphi Classics
“What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.”

Source : Shirley Hazzard (2004). “Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories”, p.24, Macmillan
“Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the opinion of those narrow minds who disdain everything in science which has not an immediate application. ... A theoretical discovery has but the merit of its existence: it awakens hope, and that is all. But let it be cultivated, let it grow, and you will see what it will become.”
“An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.”

Source : Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”
“Children listen, I'm trying to tell you something good, don't get caught up in the hood.”
“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think...”
“When private industry makes a mistake, it gets corrected and goes away. As governments make mistakes, it gets bigger, bigger and bigger and they make more, more and more because as they run out of money, they just ask for more and so they get rewarded for making mistakes. In the meantime that is exactly what we are doing by subsidizing companies which are failing, we have a reverse Darwinism, we've got survival of the unfittest, the companies and people that have made terrible mistakes are being rewarded and other people are being punished and being taxed.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Talks at Google"/"Peter Schiff: 'Crash Proof'", www.youtube.com. May 06, 2009.
“I feel like someone is pressing me into a mold that does not fit my body, forcing me intothe wrong shape.”

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