"There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside."

-- Zhang Ziyi

#Mother Quotes #Character Quotes #Men Quotes

“Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences--what Keats called agonie ennuyeuse (the tedious agony)--that necessary time for renewal, lying fallow, gestation, in the natural cycle of creation. The silences I speak of here are unnatural: the unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being, but cannot.”
“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”

Source : Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.230, Macmillan
“As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.”

Source : "Reaction to CIA leak indictments", www.cnn.com. October 28, 2005.
“Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.”

Source : "Religious Perplexities". "Hibbert Lecture", 1922.
“As a pirate, she once undressed a fencing instructor using only her sword!”

Source : Kathy Reichs (2011). “Seizure: A Virals Novel”, p.54, Penguin
“The love of a girl can make a man stay on when he should go,Just tryin' to build a peaceful life where love is free to grow.”
“I smell pancakes," Al said as he jauntily smacked Pierce's hat back on the witch's head. "Did the runt make you breakfast?" Al said, leaning over the stove. "Quickest way to a woman's crotch is through her gullet, eh?" he said, leering at Pierce, who was now rinsing out the percolator. "Is it working? I'd be curious to know. I'd buy her a cake or something.”
“It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.”

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