"Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ..."

-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#Real Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.”
“When life kicks you in the teeth and knocks you down to the ground. Are you able to stand up and keep fighting?! Thatâ€™s what itâ€™s all about.”
“...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.”
“Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life.”
“With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.”
“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”

Source : "We could be heroes: an election-year letter" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2012.
“Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.”
“You're never going to learn everything.”

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