"It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Get Over Quotes

“I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.”
“A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed.”
“If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.”
“To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works have sold, would be but a poor measure of the degree in which they have elevated and enchanted their country; nor would it be less grovelling and incongruous to estimate the benefit which the country has derived from the Revolution of 1688, by the pay of the soldiers, and all other payments concerned in effecting it.”
“A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness.”

Source : "The Force of Knowledge: The Scientific Dimension of Society". Book by John Ziman, p. 98, 1976.
“When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death.”
“The miraculous power of the healing we create through crisis can be as stunning as looking at the sun.”
“Im just a lipgloss, blush and mascara kind of girl. I like playing with a bright lipstick or a heavy eye... But not together!”

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