"[... vastly different peoples live and work side by side but rarely come together, like the arms of an egg beater that] whirled independently and never touched, so that perhaps one arm never knew the other was there; yet they were together, turned by the same handle, and the cake was mixed by both."

-- Elspeth Huxley

#Cake Quotes #Eggs Quotes #Together Quotes

“In a democracy, dynasty politics is wrong. We need to free the state and nation from it.”
“My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.”
“Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.”
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
“I would never do anything outside of the rules of play.”

Source : Tom Brady Press Conference at Gillette Stadium, www.courant.com. January 22, 2015.
“Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!”
“In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.”
“Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you're his second choice, don't make him your first.”

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