"Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the seashore, footprint after footprint of trodden sand, and somehow the kiss or the spoken covenant gets lost in the vastness and indifference of nature. In a city there are places to remind us of what has been."

-- Edna O'Brien

#Kissing Quotes #Cities Quotes #Vastness Quotes

“It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.”
“All of us are driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do - that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.”
“We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.”

Source : "Cars That Drive Themselves". Interview with Jason Spingarn-Koff and Joe Seamans, www.pbs.org. March 28, 2006.
“It's risky to talk about one's most secret dreams a bit too early.”
“Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.”

Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël: A Study of Her Life and Times: the First Revolution and the First Empire”
“One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the bringing together of head and heart-intelligence and goodness-shall man rise to a fulfillment of his true nature.”
“I know I have within myself... a side of solitude. I think people who know me can see, but people who just meet me can't because I'm generally very fun and gregarious. I love to spend a lot of time on my own. I can seriously go into my own head and often love to let myself travel where I don't know where I'm going. I always felt that that was his kind of form of escape, in a way.”
“Whatâ€™s that about? Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not being the one who risks the most.”

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