"In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy."

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Source : Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.301, Penguin

Thomas Harris

#People Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Making Friends Quotes

“Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.”

Source : May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.571, Open Road Media
“People say nice things to me -- like that I ought to run for president -- which tells me that they like me. But I have my own deadline for how long I should be in Washington. I think you can get accustomed to red tape and many unfair things that go on in government. Once you stop getting angry about inefficiencies, waste, and injustice, you ought to get out. That's my time limit.”
“On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.”

Source : "The Great Indian Novel". Book by Shashi Tharoor, August 24, 1989.
“Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”

Source : "Wisdom for Our Time". Book by James Nelson, 1961.
“You know, the key issue is that city issues are not to be put in a box and say well, that's what the mayor wants. They're Canadian issues. Cities account for 75 percent of our GDP. If you don't have a plan for cities, it means you don't have a plan for the economy.”
“I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.”
“I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.”
“It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.”

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