Browsing Quotes, page 34
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Nobody hates or loves anyone except themselves.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Downtown OwlPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 7:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
And what was money? It was merely a temptation to commit wrong. Rich people weren’t happy. They were generally miserable and usually confused. Most of the time they didn’t even realize they were rich; almost without exception, they wrongly viewed themselves as middle-class. But there’s no such thing as middle-class. The middle class does not exist. If you believe you are part of the middle class, it just means you’re rich and insecure or poor and misinformed.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Downtown OwlPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 7:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is important to have questionable friends you can trust unconditionally.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Downtown OwlPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Society is so confused, Mitch thought. Everyone wanted to become the person they were already pretending to be.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Downtown OwlPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is no feeling that can match the emotive intensity of an attraction devoid of explanation.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Downtown OwlPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Teaching history to eighth graders is like being a tour guide for people who hate their vacation.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Downtown OwlPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It was all (of course) too predictable to believe. Which is how life always is: Pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn’t seem to care.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Downtown OwlPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
She’s right of course. It’s not fair. Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: How to Be GoodPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Who are these people, that they want to save the world and yet they are incapable of forming proper relationships with anybody? As GoodNews so eloquently puts it, it’s love this and love that, but of course it’s so easy to love someone you don’t know, whether it’s George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you’ve ever shared Christmas turkey – now there’s a miracle.
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: How to Be GoodPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Getting married and having a family is like emigrating. I used to live in the same country as my brother; I used to share his values and his tastes and his attitudes, and then I moved away. And even though I didn’t notice it happening, I started to speak with a different accent, and think differently, and even though I remembered my native land fondly, all traces of it had gone from me.
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: How to Be GoodPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Sadness is a right sod for keeping itself hidden away. A right sod. Gotta come out sometime, though, and it’s pouring out of you.”
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: How to Be GoodPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“I’m forty one years old,” says David, “and I have spent half my life regretting that I missed the Sixties. I read about the energy, and I imagine what the music would’ve sounded like when you hadn’t heard it a thousand times before, and when it actually meant something, and I’ve always been sad that the world is different now.”
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: How to Be GoodPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don’t need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: How to Be GoodPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Speaker: Lao TzuPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 3:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.
Speaker: George LucasPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 3:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“But I will say no more about it. Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“My dear friend, have you forgotten that instructive story about Siddhartha, the Brahmin’s son, which you once told me here? Who protected Siddhartha the Samana from Samsara, from sin, greed and folly? Could his father’s piety, his teacher’s exhortations, his own knowledge, his own seeking, protect him? Which father, which teacher, could prevent him from living his own life, from soiling himself with life, from loading himself with sin, from swallowing the bitter drink himself, from finding his own path? Do you think, my dear friend, that anybody is spared this path?”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew.
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“I am not going anywhere. I am only on the way. I am making a pilgrimage.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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