"She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness."

-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Light Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Kind Quotes

“My vintage Levi's are my favorite on the show, 'cause they really fit.”
“Any enterprise of your own is a great enterprise.”
“I am taking a risk with my claycourt schedule. It is pretty heavy from now up until Roland Garros. I am scheduled to have one week off before Paris. Playing here is not as tiring as competing abroad. I wanted to see this tournament happen and now that we have the event, I want to see it grow.”
“I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.”
“Matisse renovates rather than innovates.”
“We have to speak the truth always, at any cost, and no matter what.”
“The first day of the rest of my life.”
“But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.”

Source : Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Bissell Carroll (1964). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.135, MIT Press

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