"I think my mother was always worried about me when she was alive."

-- Martha Wainwright

#Mother Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Such as I am, I am a precious gift.”
“When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.”
“People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling with new purple hairs. And the buds are bulging like tumorous acne, and I can tell that something wet, and soft, and cold, and misshapen is about to be born. And I am turning into a vampire.”
“Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as complicated as the sterols, or strychnine were just as experiment suggested?”

Source : Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”
“The more we ignore our emotions, the more likely they are to wield a powerful influence over us.”

Source : Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
“Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
“The same tools we need to use to keep this country safe by bringing terrorists to justice, because I guarantee you, if they have the opportunity and the means, they will take American lives.”
“[Hillary Clinton] was trying to encourage us to become more active in politics and she said, 'If you leave all the decision-making to others, you might not like what they do, and you will have no one but yourself to blame.' It was such a challenge to the women in the room. And it really hit me: She's talking to me.”

Source : "In Hillary's Footsteps: Kirsten Gillibrand". Vogue, November 2010.

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