#people

Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#social-anxiety #life

ففي المواقف التفصيلية من حياة الأفراد و الأمم يكون للإنسان فرصة واحدة لا ثاني لها لأن "يكون أو لا يكون ↗

— عيد الناصر

#chances #life #people #life

I think that the thing I most want you to remember is that research is a ceremony. And so is life. Everything that we do shares in the ongoing creation of our universe. ↗

— Shawn Wilson

#methodologies #research #life

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking. ↗

— Idi Amin

#i #i am #mistake #people #sometimes

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#irony #life #mothers #people #life

On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported. ↗

— Margaret Carlson

#being #bush #domestic #eavesdropping #his

They are the people of creation. Their maker…gives them the sky to carry because they are so strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#strength #life

The world would be a better place if everyone just helped one another out when they needed it, in my opinion. ↗

— Claire Cook

#people #world #life

The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#commissioners #competence #countries #credibility #each

You will never see things as they are; you will only see things as you are. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#enemy #love #people #relationships #love