"The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity."

-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Peaceful Quotes #Insecurity Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.”
“I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct apprehension. A deep-sea fish has probably no means of apprehending the existence of water, it is too uniformly immersed in it: and that is our condition in regard to the Ether.”

Source : Oliver Lodge (2012). “Ether and Reality: A Series of Discourses on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space”, p.28, Cambridge University Press
“The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing.”

Source : Dan Simmons (2009). “Drood”, p.755, Hachette UK
“Being alone makes us stronger. Thatâ€™s the honest truth. But itâ€™s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.”
“The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.”

Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.
“I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.”

Source : Statement in Opposition to H.J. Res. 64, delivered 14 September 2001
“I want people to hear my story, they're gonna feel my pain.”

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