"I don't like the idea of famous people."

-- Kristin Hersh

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization. g. to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives.”
“The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.”
“Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.”

Source : Debbie Macomber (2015). “Twenty Wishes”, p.340, MIRA
“A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.”
“The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching.”
“Tonight, I would like to pay tribute to the greatest entertainer of all time, Mr. Elvis Presley. Elvis was Las Vegas. And if it wasn't for him, so many performers like myself would not have the chance to do what we do in this town. He really was the king.”
“People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.”
“At the end of my suffering/there was a door.”

Source : "Wild Iris". Book by Louise Glück, therumpus.net. November 1, 1993.

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