"For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love."

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Source : Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.63, Penguin

Chang-Rae Lee

#Ruins Quotes #Helping Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.”

Source : "Entertainment exec Peter Guber". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 15, 2011.
“Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.”
“I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.”
“Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.”
“We do not have an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. Nowhere. We do have two healthcare workers who contracted the disease from a dying man. They are isolated. There is no information to suggest that the virus has spread to anyone in the general population in America. Not one person in the general population in the United States.”

Source : "Smith: Ebola panic 'not worth the ratings'" by Hadas Gold, www.politico.com. October 15, 2014.
“So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben - or Al Gore, Paul Krugman, or any other climate-change doomsayer - to put his wealth where his words are. I'll bet $10,000 that the average annual number of Americans killed by tornadoes, floods and hurricanes will fall over the next 20 years. Specifically, I'll bet that the average annual number of Americans killed by these violent weather events from 2011 through 2030 will be lower than it was from 1991 through 2010.”

Source : "More Weather Deaths? Wanna Bet?". www.wsj.com. May 28, 2011.
“I think love keeps on changing every day. Itâ€™s not black and white and itâ€™s definitely more than 50 shades of grey.”
“I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America.”

Source : Interview with Ezra Klein, www.goodreads.com. February 10, 2011.

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