"Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe thats why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried."

-- Kim Edwards

#Circles Quotes #People Quotes #Library Quotes

“There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.”
“Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people,”

Source : "‘Game of Thrones’ Star Maisie Williams Is Fed Up With Adults Who Underestimate Teens" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2015.
“I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders." --Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company”
“One day is worth a thousand tomorrows.”
“The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakspeare will be renewed with greater and greater lustre in ages yet unborn, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel and the page of the chronicler.”

Source : WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT (1858). “BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MISCELLANIES”, p.239
“Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.”
“It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.”
“I could write stories just as rotten.”

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