Bertie Auld Quotes

#1. Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we'll do what we want.

Daniel Willey

#2. There can be no final solution to our loneliness in this life.

Ronald Rolheiser

#3. There is nothing more nervous than a million dollars - it moves very fast, and it doesn't speak any language.

Jean Chretien

#4. Physically you are identical with and inseparable from the cosmic material substance, and socially you are inseparable from the large mass of humanity.

Krishnananda Saraswati

#5. The acronym COAL has been proposed for this attitude of compassionate curiosity: curiosity, openness, acceptance, and love:

Gabor Mate

#6. It's quite an interesting time, the '20s, because the politics of England were changing quite a lot, and the class structure was starting to shift a little.

Julian Ovenden

#7. Anarchy is law and freedom without force.
Despotism is law and force without freedom.
Barbarism force without freedom and law.
Republicanism is force with freedom and law.

Immanuel Kant

#8. The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition.

Tim Weiner

#9. We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

David Foster Wallace

#10. THE DYING GAUL is a Hollywood satire. But Hollywood is not the real subject matter here. My play uses that world of high-rolling big money - that crazy-making business - to examine a whole range of subjects..

Craig Lucas

#11. Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.

Beth Ditto

#12. Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. I want to help children develop strengths that allow them to feel they don't have to push things away mentally ... If we 'cotton-ball' kids, it produces adults who are too scared to think for themselves and are easily manipulated.

Morris Gleitzman

#14. The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

Barack Obama

#15. My brother says I'm too famous to hang around with him.

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