"The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Jobs Quotes #Men Quotes #Talking Quotes

“This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.”
“The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.”
“As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.”
“It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.”
“The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.”

Source : Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.487, Penguin
“Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.”
“For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.”
“Everyone is a buyer, everyone's a potential purchaser and everyone's a potential vendor.”

Source : National Press Club address| Q & A session, jbh.ministers.treasury.gov.au. September 18, 2013 - September 21, 2015.

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