"There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian."

-- Thales

#Grateful Quotes #Men Quotes #Animal Quotes

“If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable.”

Source : Sheri Holman (2007). “The Mammoth Cheese”, p.89, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book.”
“We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?.”
“As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.”
“Fashion is much more than product. It's about entertainment and people feeling a part of something.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.”
“Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that was not at all so in my own case. It was only when I watched Alexander [my own son] being born that I knew at once that my own funeral director had very suddenly, but quite unmistakably, stepped onto the stage. I was surprised by how calmly I took this, but also by how reluctant I was to mention it to my male contemporaries.”
“Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.”

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