"I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Thinking Quotes #Pressure Quotes #Sanity Quotes

“The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.”
“Thank God she wasnâ€™t still hanging out in her underpants.”
“Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the universal organ for world understanding through theoretical construction. Mathematics must therefore remain an essential element of the knowledge and abilities which we have to teach, of the culture we have to transmit, to the next generation.”

Source : Hermann Weyl (1968). “Gesammelte Abhandlungen”
“Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.”
“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.”
“If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.”
“The Darkest Minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.”

Source : Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.485, Hachette UK
“I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.”

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