"The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small."

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William Langewiesche

#Mean Quotes #Stories Quotes #World Quotes

“Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.”

Source : "A Day in The Life of an Angel" by Lindsay Ellingson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2011.
“You have to be willing to look a certain way, and hold your body a certain way, until you get to where you want to go - I'm talking about musically, now.”
“Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.”

Source : James Hilton (1988). “Lost Horizon”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
“The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.”
“And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.”
“And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River)”
“Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them, I spoiled everything; on the contrary, when I praised them for their resignation and sympathized with them in their sufferings; when I told them they were fortunate to have their purgatory in this world, when I kissed their chains, showed compassion for their distress, and expressed sorrow for their misfortune, it was then that they listened to me, gave glory to God, and opened themselves to salvation.”
“Well I know that you worry a lot about Things you cant control There are so many things wed like to have But we just cannot hold You've got to be kind to yourself You've got to be kind to yourself”

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