"Knowing is not thinking. Knowing begins when thinking ceases, having finished its work. Every new knowing is a joy, for it is a new experience of unity."

-- Ernest Wood

#Thinking Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Joy Quotes

“All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate”

Source : Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.82, Golgotha Press
“I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I welcome the fact that Trump has clearly stated that NATO is not obsolete.And I think, also, that reflects that NATO is adapting. NATO is the most successful alliance in history because we have been able to change, to adapt when the world is changing. And now NATO is stepping up its effort in the global fight against terrorism, and we are responding to a more assertive Russia with an increase of our collective defense, with more presence in the eastern part of the alliance.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.”
“The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.”
“I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.”

Source : S. M. Stirling (2008). “The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change”, p.316, Penguin
“There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.”
“Umpiring is best described as the profession of standing between two seven-year olds with one ice cream cone.”

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