"He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match."

-- Aneurin Bevan

#Summer Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Lazy Quotes

“Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.”
“Back in the early 1960s, when I was eight or nine. Some neighborhood boys and I saw a disc-shaped, windowless object that hovered, silent, then simply vanished. My parents said, "That's very nice" and ignored it, but I knew what I'd seen, and it was life-changing.”

Source : "UFOs: What the Government Really Knows" by Jean-Noel Bassior, November 2005.
“I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.”
“Customers want new functionality, but they don't want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past.”
“When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves.”
“Anger is a warning signal. It points to problems.”
“They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.”
“The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not looking back or beneath their feet, and with no loose change for the boatman.”

Source : Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1998). “The Club Dumas: A Novel”, Vintage

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