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“I think the damned souls in hell must spend half their time wondering what it was that they really meant to do.”
Source : Elizabeth Marie Pope, Richard Cuffari (2001). “The Perilous Gard”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I guess for me, balance isn't about treating your time like a pie chart and dividing it into equally sized slices for you, the kids, work, and so on. It's about the quality of how you spend your time, not the quantity--are you being present and focused on whatever you're doing while you're doing it? I truly believe that's how you can be the best version of yourself, whether you're in work mode, mom mode, or wife mode. When I know I'm giving my undivided attention in each of these areas, I don't feel so guilty about the time spent away from them.”
Source : Jessica Alba (2013). “The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition): Living Naturally and True to You”, p.181, Rodale
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“After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.”
Source : Benjamin Samuel Bloom, Lauren A. Sosniak (1985). “Developing talent in young people”
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“Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness.”
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“Stamford Bridge holds 42,000. So ten per cent of that would be about 4.1 thousand”
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“I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.”
Source : Maria Monk, Theodore Dwight, John Jay Slocum, William K. Hoyte (1836). “Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal”, p.78, New York : Howe & Bates
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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
Source : Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962
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“[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.”
