"From the very beginningâ€” from the first moment, I may almost sayâ€” of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry."

-- Jane Austen

#Selfish Quotes #Men Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.”
“However many people complain about the "red tape," it would be sheer illusion to think ... continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices.... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dillettantism.”
“I also think that Germany helped me with my aggressiveness.”
“I don't think I've ever played a 'hot chick' before. I always play the quirky friend or the really angry girl.”
“Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.”
“I hope this serves as a light for others who come into the league as undrafted players.”
“Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.”

Source : Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “The Visitor”, p.216, Hachette UK
“There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.”

Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM & NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (Children’s Book Classics): Adventure Novels”, p.357, e-artnow

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