"It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing."

-- Carol Shields

#Sleep Quotes #Breathing Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“The best advice I've heard was from a lady in her 80s at my grandmother's 90th birthday. I was telling her how wonderful my children are. She said, "Don't forget your husband: you only borrow your children; your husband you'll have for ever."”

Source : "This much I know: Davina McCall". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2011.
“All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.”
“The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly on "ethnic" voters, whose activism was both hemmed in and rewarded by the Democrats. Southern and Eastern Europeans were included as secondary leaders of the new industrial unions, and as entitled citizens qualified for social security, unemployment compensation, and fair labor standards protections, even as workers of color were largely left out of key areas of the welfare state.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“I love playing females that are put into these pressure-cooker situations, but they're real. I didn't want to be this kind of Lara Croft superwoman.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.”

Source : Herbert M. Shelton (1993). “Getting Well”, p.9, Health Research Books
“Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.”
“In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.”
“A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.”

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