"Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice."

-- Padgett Powell

#Book Quotes #Juice Quotes #Notable Quotes

“It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.”
“A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.”
“It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.”
“God hath long contended with a stubborn world, and thrown down many a blessing upon them; and when all his other gifts could not prevail, He at last made a gift of Himself.”

Source : Henry Scougal (2013). “The Life of God in the Soul of Man”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
“The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift.”

Source : Josef Pieper (2015). “Leisure: The Basis of Culture”, p.22, Ignatius Press
“Science, with its experiments and logic, tries to understand the order or structure of the universe. Religion, with its theological inspiration and reflection, tries to understand the purpose or meaning of the universe. These two are cross-related. Purpose implies structure, and structure ought somehow to be interpretable in terms of purpose.”
“After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.”

Source : Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338, supreme.justia.com. 2007.
“I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.”

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