"The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?"

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Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.157, Vintage

Yasunari Kawabata

#Heart Quotes #Inspire Quotes #Labor Quotes

“The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.”
“While many have been left behind by Part D, there is a clear winner: the drug industry. Independent analysts predict that Part D will increase drug industry profits by $139 billion over the next eight years. Glaxo-SmithKline's second-quarter net income already jumped 14 percent, and other leading drug companies also have benefited.”
“And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.”
“As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods and heavy precipitation.”
“The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.”
“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.”

Source : Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)
“I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.”
“But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic project at all, but a political project, designed to devastate the imagination, and willing - with it's cumbersome securitization and insane military projects - to destroy the capitalist order itself if that's what it took to make it seem inevitable.”

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