Silent Competition Quotes

#1. I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life ( ... ).

Henry David Thoreau

#2. In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an awkward conversation. It's like group therapy.

Sloane Crosley

#3. Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

Max Weber

#5. The biggest parts of healing and making myself whole is to accept all of the many parts of myself.

Louise Hay

#6. As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition, a constant monitoring of who's thinner, comments about it - either compliments or veiled insults doesn't matter - it always drives me nuts.

Kate Christensen

#7. Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

Barbara Kingsolver