"I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with."

-- Laurel Nakadate

#Men Quotes #Trying Quotes #Connections Quotes

“I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.”
“My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.”
“Sports (and the often barely withheld violence around them) have become one of the few modern ways to connect with strangers. They give an amazing number of geeks things to talk about. In the old days we settled for, "Hello, how are you?”
“I can't speak to being a force for change, but I take it and wear it proudly. I'll never deny it or be one of those people who are like, "I'm just trying to do my best..." No! I'm all about total world domination.”
“The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing. Jack stood very still. The colossal head turned, the scaled lip only three feet from Jack. The golden eyes gazed at him, wirling with fiery color. Jack breathed in tiny, shallow breaths. Dont blink. Don't blink... Two gusts of wind erutped from the wyvern's nostrils Jack jumped straight up, bounced off the ground into another jump, and scrambled up the nearest tree. In the clearing, Gaston bent over, guffawing like an idiot. 'It's not funny!”
“I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them - an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That's what I've been after.”
“I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not”

Source : Elizabeth Gurney Fry (1847). “Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry: With Extracts from Her Letters and Journal”, p.86
“For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.”

Source : Hannah Whitall Smith (1899). “Child Culture, Or, The Science of Motherhood”

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