"Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance."

-- Barbara Holland

#Shoes Quotes #Roots Quotes #Good Times Quotes

“We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.”
“Everyone is a buyer, everyone's a potential purchaser and everyone's a potential vendor.”

Source : National Press Club address| Q & A session, jbh.ministers.treasury.gov.au. September 18, 2013 - September 21, 2015.
“Everybody thinks an automobile needs an engine. Well, an automobile doesn't necessarily need an engine. What we do is shift electric motors into the wheels of our automobiles and so we have a completely different kind of thing where we have four independent intelligent wheels rather than a traditional internal combustion engine and power train and so on.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“So what do people see when they read that well-behaved women rarely make history? Do they imagine good-time girls in stiletto heels or do-good girls carrying clipboards and passing petitions? Do they envision an out-of-control hobbyist or a single mother taking down a drunk in a bar? I suspect that it depends on where they stand themselves.”

Source : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2008). “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”, p.19, Vintage
“Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.”
“Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”
“What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure.”
“Bigger is always better.”

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