"They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Thinking Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Gone Quotes

“The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.”

Source : Mike Rowe's Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, www.discovery.com. May 11, 2011.
“If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.”
“The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.”
“Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.”
“For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.”
“Women and people of color and young people especially are about to have this amazing opportunity to shift the political conversation in this country for the good of all of us, toward more progressive policies, and it's a really amazing and important time to be part of that.”

Source : "Glamour Women Of The Year Awards Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lena Dunham, Zaha Hadid And Others" By Margaret Wheeler Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2012.
“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”
“These masters of the universe must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put at risk... The Tories won't say anything about the current crisis as they are completely in the pockets of the hedge funds.”

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