#Firsts Quotes #Want Quotes #Fields Quotes
“Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other.”
“Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All around you these people fall into prostrate positions, some of them weeping. Where are you? Sara’s answer was immediate: in an asylum. Perhaps, Kreizler answered, but you could also be in a church. In the one place the behavior would be considered mad; in the other, not only sane, but as respectable as any human activity can be.”
Source : Caleb Carr (2006). “The Alienist: A Novel”, p.157, Random House
“Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!”
“A happy player is a good player, I think.”
“I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.”
“We know about the Detroit offense with Calvin Johnson, the best receiver in the game. If this defense continues to play at this pace, they may have something to say about the NFC North.”
“What the other teams do is something that I can never control, so I just keep focussed on my direction.”
“Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.”
Edmund Hillary Mountaineer