quotes about using people

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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. ~Ezra Pound



History is a mixture of error and violence. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience. ~Pam Brown



Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. ~Peter Dunne, 1992



The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos. ~Author Unknown



It's not just a rock. It's forty-two pounds of polished granite, with a beveled underbelly and a handle a human being can hold. Okay, so in and of itself it looks like it has no practical purpose, but it's a repository of possibility. And, when it's handled just right, it exacts a kind of poetry - as close to poetry as I ever want to get. The way it moves.... Not once, in everything I've done, have I ever felt the same wonder and humanity as when I'm playing the game of curling. ~Paul Gross, John Krizanc, and Paul Quarrington, Men with Brooms



Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them. ~Martin Amis



The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay. ~Troy Perry



Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings. ~Bob Parsons



Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



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The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys. ~Dave Beard



Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark, swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora. ~Ketzel Levine's talkingplants.com



No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ~Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907



He is one of those giant figures, of whom there are very few in history, who lose their nationality in death. ~David Lloyd George



My heart beat so hard when I was near him, I feared he could hear my secret longing for him. ~Destiny Vaestus



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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art. ~Kenneth Tynan