"In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today...."

-- Cole Porter

#Night Quotes #White Quotes #Mad Quotes

“The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.”
“The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.”
“Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.”
“Learn to fail or fail to learn”

Source : Tal Ben-Shahar (2014). “Choose the Life You Want: The Mindful Way to Happiness”, p.130, The Experiment
“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
“It is hard to keep a straight face during comedy scenes. It's considered really bad form to laugh at someone else because you can ruin their best take. But sometimes it's very hard not to.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.”
“The Government's first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust.”

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