"Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business."

“You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.”

“What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils ...”

Source : Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1102, BookCaps Study Guides

“Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.”

“First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars and the great depression put together. All countries will be affected, but the poorest countries will be hit hardest. Secondly, the costs of inaction far outweigh the costs of action”

Source : David Miliband on Climate Change during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. October 30, 2006.

“Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.”

“This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.”

“I felt free, once I realized i was never going to fit the narrow mold that society wanted me to fit in.”

Source : "Ashley Graham’s Ted Talk Is A Lesson In Body Acceptance" by Jamie Feldman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2015.

“Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.”