"The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult."

-- Leonardo DiCaprio

#Reading Quotes #School Quotes #Years Quotes

“There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.”
“A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.”
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar. It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions?”
“Some of this story is completely true. And some of it isn't. Like truth, evil comes in all sorts of flavors. Some bitter. Some deceptively sweet. Sometimes it comes with a heavy price. While most people don't invite evil into their lives, the dirty little secret is that an invitation isn't necessary. Locked doors don't matter. Neither do fancy security systems. Evil is kind of amazing when you think about it. She knows how to get inside.”
“History is full of instances of people who challenged the mighty forces of evil and they were not only fighting a lonely battle but were left alone to die.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“In a thing, they can create a pretext coined hundreds of excuses , but the truth is only one.”
“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”

Source : Nora Ephron (2011). “When Harry Met Sally. . .”, p.97, Knopf
“Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.”

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