"Changes occur because thereâ€™s a gap between what is and what should be."

-- Craig McCaw

#Gaps Quotes #Should Quotes

“They's a heap more to God's will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit's God's will for us to be good and do good, love one another, be forgivin'..." He laughed. "I reckon I ain't very forgivin', son. I can forgive a fool, but I ain't inner-rested in coddlin' hypocrites. Well anyhow, folks who think God's will jest has to do with sufferin' and dyin', they done missed the whole point.”
“I love the way I look. I'm fine with it. And if my body changes, I'll be fine with that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's so important to listen to music, to listen again and again. Eat, sleep and drink music.”
“If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that COâ‚‚ will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm [parts per million] to at most 350 ppm... If the present overshoot of this target COâ‚‚ is not brief, there is a possibility of seeding irreversible catastrophic effects.”
“Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis.”
“Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.”
“Many people worked with the inspiration to free the country by throwing the British out. After formal departure of the British this inspiration slackened. In fact there was no need to have this much inspiration. We should remember that in our pledge we have talked of the freedom of the country through defending religion and culture. There is no mention of departure of the British in that.”
“Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor defects so they'd start to bother me and allow me to snuff the dream till it tapered off and lost its luster and, with its luster gone, remind me once again, as ever again, that happiness is the one thing that in our lives others cannot bring.”

Source : André Aciman (2010). “Eight White Nights: A Novel”, p.5, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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