"They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning."

-- Kim Edwards

#World Quotes #Questioning Quotes #Distracted Quotes

“We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.”
“No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1991). “Mister Johnson”, New Directions Publishing Corporation
“I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add.”
“My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.”
“With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.”
“When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.”
“If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid with man at the apex)â€¦ Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence, however indirect the links may be.”

Source : "The Ecology of Freedom". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1982.
“If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled.”

Source : "Andrés Iniesta: Football isn't a science. We play this way because it suits us" by Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.

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