"It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?"

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Making Love Quotes #Doe Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.”
“Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably have dabbled in drugs. There may be some, judges and lawyers involved in the case could have been involved. So it's a problem in all society.”

Source : Source: articles.latimes.com
“Fifty is a big corner to turn. It used to mean being put out to pasture, but it's the opposite with me. I feel more vibrant; I'm more active than I've ever been. The F-word really is freedom. It's the freedom to have dropped the rock-the rock of addiction, of family, of comparisons with other people. It's being fit and focused and kind of furious.”
“The most unacknowledged spending expectation among women is the amount of time spent by single mothers caring for children, not only physically, but psychologically. It is my feeling that only a small percentage of a mother's time is normally compensated for by child support, given what a woman could make adding these hours to workforce hours... It is why women who have never been married and never had children earn so much more in the workplace than women who have had children.”
“Most technology companies are culturally inept. They're never going to get curation right.”

Source : "Jimmy Iovine Is Going To Be Awesome For Apple" by Steve Kovach, www.businessinsider.com. May 9, 2014.
“There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.”

Source : c.1800 Debate on theAct of Union between Great Britain and Ireland, IrishHouse of Commons, quotedin SirJonahBarrington Personal Sketches and Recollections of his ownTimes (1827).
“He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age”
“Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.”

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