"This is like the gun you shoot at the beginning of the race or the bell that you ring at the beginning of a classroom discussion, .. This is the president saying, 'OK, we're going to get serious about this now. Congress is going to work on it. I'm going to put my political capital behind it.' ."

-- Tamar Jacoby

#Gun Quotes #Race Quotes #Political Quotes

“Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.”
“Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.”
“You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.”
“Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.”

Source : Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”
“I picked up the phone to call the police, but then I considered how it would sound when I told them that I was calling from inside my bathroom, where Iâ€™d ODâ€™ed on laxatives, and that a possible rapist was quietly passing me notes under the bathroom door.”
“Whoever's designing for plus-size doesn't get it. The entire garment needs to be reconceived. You can't just take a size 8 and make it larger.”
“If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.”

Source : Karen Traviss (2008). “Sacrifice: Star Wars Legends (Legacy of the Force)”, p.135, Del Rey
“My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.”

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