"And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Winning Quotes #Space Quotes #Choices Quotes

“I feel most sexy when everything comes together! I like to maintain myself by going to the gym, I love the gym. I also feel most confident when I feel most beautiful inside - it shows on the outside! If I don't feel like putting on makeup to leave the house, I just add a slick of lipstick to make myself feel sexy”
“As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel. Give me children that's raised on good sound pork afore all the game in the country. Game's good as a relish and so's bread; but pork is the staff of life... My children I calkerlate to bring up on pork with just as much bread and butter as they want.”
“Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.”
“49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way.”
“...Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is very foolish and ignorant, but it cannot be helped... Besides, it is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself.”
“The internet is fracturing into a series of huge country-based intranets, in which governments define, in the name of security, what is legitimate personal and intellectual communication, and what is not.”
“Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off.”

Source : Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.577, Harvard University Press
“I feel like there are messages. I feel like there are angels. I feel that there is a legacy and an energy. And I feel that it's possible to tap into that.”

Source : "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 3, 2013.

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