"We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want."

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Source : Carol Shields (2001). “Dressing Up for the Carnival”, p.22, Penguin

Carol Shields

#Hands Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Want Quotes

“In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.”
“Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates were secured by increasing the bonded debt for current expenses or refusing to keep our institutions up to the standard in repairs, extensions, equipment, and accommodations. I refuse, and the Republican Party refuses, to endorse that method of sham and shoddy economy.”
“I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do.”

Source : "PM Lee Hsien Loong 'Grieved Beyond Words' at Mr Lee Kuan Yew's Death" by Fiona Chan, www.straitstimes.com. March 23, 2015.
“I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.”
“If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.”
“He found me when I was at my lowest point.”
“If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.”
“I am so honoured to have been given this opportunity to become an Ambassador. It's a new and different venture for me and one that I know will widen my wider perspective on life. I'm in a position to use the recognition from my work to do something really positive for children”

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