"If I could change a single thing about my life,' she said gently, 'I would not have been so unhappy when I was young."

-- Lan Samantha Chang

#Unhappy Quotes #Said Quotes #Young Quotes

“I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.”
“Things that don't get better, get worse.”

Source : Ellen Sue Stern (1988). “The Indispensable Woman”, Bantam
“We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal mutations (the worst kind) are effectively eliminated, but others persist as alleles. ...Mutants are present within every population, from bacteria to man. There can be no doubt about it. But for the evolutionist, the essential lies elsewhere: in the fact that mutations do not coincide with evolution.”
“Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.”
“An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.”
“Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.”
“The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.”
“Some people are more affected by, I hate to use the word "success," but I don't know what else to say, but some people are more affected by that than others.”

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