"I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness, the way they contrast with most daily encounters. That reminder that it can be different, that you need not go through your life unknown but that you probably still will--that is the part that's almost unbearable."

-- Curtis Sittenfeld

#Encounters Quotes #Different Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.”
“There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.”
“English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.”

Source : Mary Augusta Ward (2002). “Marcella”, p.552, Broadview Press
“People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: Its just the way I sound when I sing.”
“Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.”
“The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings.”
“Jo began to dance a jig,...Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well I do believe the world is coming to an end!”
“Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.”

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