"Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality."

-- Jacques Ellul

#Hate Quotes #Pride Quotes #Levers Quotes

“Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.”

Source : Laura Lippman (2009). “What the Dead Know: A Novel”, p.21, Harper Collins
“There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.”
“I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.”
“On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas listens, your words flow and you have done something.”

Source : Wendy Baron, Walter Sickert (2006). “Sickert: Paintings and Drawings”, p.91, Yale University Press
“Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.”
“You never know what motivates you.”
“The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.”
“Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we donâ€™t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality.”

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