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“Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.”
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“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”
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“Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.”
Source : John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, John Greenleaf Whittier (1832). “The Literary Remains of J.G.C. Brainard: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.156
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“Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost.”
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“Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.”
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“I would rather Google other people than Google myself.”
Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
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“It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it’s this way for everyone.”
Source : Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.51, Penguin
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“... and through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they could give to one another, the loveliness, the silence, and the peace.”