"I am just an ordinary Catholic."

-- Maggie Gallagher

#Catholic Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“There was no aphrodisiac more powerful than talking, no seduction more effective than curiosity.”

Source : Manju Kapur (2010). “A Married Woman”, p.186, Faber & Faber
“The problem you get with most today's drum samples is that when you use them, you sound like everyone else using them.”

Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com
“The outstanding feature, however, is the possibility that the velocity-distance relation may represent the de Sitter effect, and hence that numerical data may be introduced into discussions of the general curvature of space.”

Source : Norriss S. Hetherington, Edwin Powell Hubble (1996). “Hubble's Cosmology: A Guided Study of Selected Texts”
“Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.”
“In my view, the Western model of influencing the development of third world countries is doomed to failure. The West does not understand how to deal with states that no longer have any authority and are threatened by dissolution. Their efforts failed in Iraq as well as Afghanistan. They are simply not capable of promoting the indigenous economy. Many billions of dollars flooded into Afghanistan, but without any significant effect.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”
“I had to wonder whether it was possible that this wasnâ€™t already decided for me, and if maybe, just maybe, this was my one last chance to try and prove it. There was no way to know. There never is. But I reached out and took it anyway.”
“Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.”

Source : "Fat is a prejudice issue" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2012.

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