"the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another."

-- Laura Huxley

#Yardsticks Quotes #Giver Quotes

“One of the things is my process requires a lot of repetition. I can probably drive people crazy because I'm interested in playing a song twenty times in a row.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.”
“I might play a lot of dramatic roles, but I'm really sort of silly.”
“When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.”
“We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.”

Source : "Clean Energy is an Easy Choice" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.”
“There is something about the aroma of fresh books that's totally intoxicating. A new book has a certain clean, crisp smell full of promise that is difficult to define. Sort of like the scent and feeling of just-washed bed linens at the moment you slide your legs between them.”
“The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.”

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