"I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced..."

-- Ernest Hemingway

#Writing Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.”
“Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 271, 1895.
“I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.”

Source : Interview, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.
“For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.”

Source : Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.94, Guilford Publications
“It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me.”
“To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground.”

Source : "Jill Hennessy Returns to Her First Love: Music". Interview with Lesley Messer, people.com. October 24, 2008.
“The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.”
“I had been thinking independently about our ability to forget things that happened, specifically, events that clearly were wrong, that crossed the line. It seemed to me during the 2000 election recount that the media's narrative was being orchestrated. Shockingly, after the Supreme Court decision, the media simply said, "Time to move on," end of reporting: "Here's the new story." And everyone forgot.”

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