"It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with."

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Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 17, 2010.

Robert Gibbs

#Jobs Quotes #Eight Quotes #Years Quotes

“The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.”
“In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak--there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain palled undersized men who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.”
“God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his.”
“Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, chickens,and cats, feeding the underworld of dirt creatures. And somewhere, myfather's ashes mingle with birds, air, and sea.”
“The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring”
“To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don't buy into the notion that because it's fantastic, it should be unrealistic, because I think you have to have a sense of believing the world that you're going into.”

Source : "Peter Jackson Talks THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, Coming on When Guillermo del Toro Left, and Post-Converting LORD OF THE RINGS to 3D". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.
“death, however long expected, is sudden at the last ...”

Source : Mary Jane Holmes (1872). “Dora Deane, Or The East India Uncle: And Maggie Miller, Or Old Hagar's Secret”, p.78
“Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.”

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