"Time is the mother and mugger of us all."

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Source : Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1993). “The New Well-tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

#Mother Quotes #Time Quotes #Muggers Quotes

“I have those (goals) written down, but don't want to discuss them. Right now, I just want to keep on improving.”
“On numerous visits to Manhattan, I have found myself poking around the city trying to find a moment of quiet and once located a hint of it in Central Park during a windless, late-night snowfall. There I stood absolutely still in the lemon glow of the city, a sky full of snow. The city still roared from all sides, a thousand noises compressed down to just one. I counted that distant, mild roar as quiet, a welcome relief from the more pressing noises of the daytime city.”
“If everybody feels fear when approaching something totally new in lifeâ€”yet so many are out there doing it despite the fearâ€”then we must conclude that fear is not the problem.”
“Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.”
“I never went after character payments. I'm pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know.”
“I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too.”
“Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide”

Source : Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.49, Vintage
“I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.”

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