"...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her."

-- Lisa Kleypas

#Waiting Quotes #Invisible Quotes #Chains Quotes

“On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of whenÂ they begin telling their story.”

Source : Jerome Groopman (2008). “How Doctors Think”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.”
“Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.”
“The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.”
“Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .”

Source : Luther Burbank (1927). “My Beliefs”
“There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.”

Source : Jane Kenyon, Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1999). “A hundred white daffodils: essays, the Akhmatova translations, newspaper columns, notes, interviews, and one poem”, Graywolf Pr
“We create our fate everyday”
“Eva Stachniak has given readers a thrilling glimpse into the scandals and secrets at the heart of the Russian Imperial court. With deft prose and exquisite detail, Stachniak has resurrected one of the most compelling ages in history. Turn off the phones and lock the doorsâ€”you will not put it down.”

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