"Apologizing is like spring cleaning."

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Katherine Hannigan

#Spring Quotes #Cleaning Quotes #Apologizing Quotes

“May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.”

Source : Giacomo Meyerbeer, Robert Ignatius Letellier (1999). “The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The years of celebrity, 1850-1856”, p.21, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
“Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.”
“Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under Governor Quirinius - a local census, not one decreed by Caesar Augustus for the Empire as a whole - but it happened too late in 6 AD, long after Herod's death.”
“If you are doing a peer review of somebody's paper before publication, the editor would not allow you to speculate about the person's motives, about their place in the hierarchy. It's not scientifically relevant.”
“I used a lot of quotes when I was young. To make me sound mature, to make me feel like I wasn't the second-class entity that I'd always thought I was”
“You could be the tastiest, most juiciest, most delicious peach out there in the world; there's still going to be people out there who don't like peaches .”
“I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those things you think sentimental, but which my generation calls simple human decency. And I miss my home, because I'm beginning to get scared shitless, because all of a sudden it's closer to the end than the beginning, and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me, with definable features.”

Source : "Fictional character: Max Schumacher". "Network", www.imdb.com. 1976.
“At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.”

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