"It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much."

-- Graham Greene

#Chocolate Quotes #Mind Quotes #Too Much Quotes

“But certain people just think it's their job to freak out. As long as they're freaking out, they feel busy, like they must be doing work. Getting upset is force, but no motion. Unless we are moving the children forward, we aren't doing work.”
“No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.”

Source : Pat Head Summitt, Sally Jenkins (2013). “Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective”, p.20, Crown Archetype
“Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the Weimar Republic's early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to failure from the outset... The conditions in which Weimar democracy were born were certainly not such as to help it flourish; and as it unfolded, it was clearly saddled with a burden of problems, in a range of areas.”

Source : Mary Fulbrook (2014). “A History of Germany 1918-2014: The Divided Nation”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons
“With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.”
“You Know the Most Dangerous Thing In the Water? A Shark Fart.”
“We don't live in our fears. We live in our hopes.”

Source : "Steelers Notebook: Turf wars - Natural or artificial at Heinz Field?". The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 22, 2007.
“I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.”
“Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!”

Source : "Yotam Ottolenghi's ultimate steak sandwich recipe" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2010.

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