quotes about Smack Talk

“To realize lasting peace and sustainable development in human society, members of the international community have to cooperate with one another fully and make concerted efforts.”

“I think of myself as still being about five.”

“And since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse of how it may all of a sudden happen to someone who cannot summon up any sense of reality — even in relation to himself — that one day he appears to himself as a man without qualities.”

“Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas.”

“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 22, 2014

“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”

“What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know.”

“If you have a solid friendship before dating, there's this understanding that you can be just youBut you should still have fun hooking up!”

“AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful.”

“The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living.”

Source : Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.232, Penguin