"You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is."

-- Melissa Bank

#Father Quotes #Believe Quotes #Expression Quotes

“If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.”

Source : David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers
“The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.”
“A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.”

Source : "On the Relation of Mathematics and Physics". "Scientific Monthly" 59, 456, December 1944.
“It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]”
“But I'd far rather live without souls or morals than Parmesan.”

Source : Kate Quinn (2013). “The Serpent and the Pearl”, p.201, Penguin
“All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't.”
“Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.”
“I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments”

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