"What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?"

-- Lois Lowry

#What If Quotes #Mates Quotes

“The majority of women in America look like me.”
“If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.”
“Most of the media bullshit you about who they are. We don’t. We’re not programming to conservatives, we’re just not eliminating their point of view.”

Source : "Roger Ailes, Polarizing Ex-Fox News Chief, Dies at 77" by Paul Bond, May 18, 2017.
“....Only you mattered in that moment. Only you. And I would have done anything to save you. I would have paid any price committed any sin sold my very soul to do it.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2015). “The Dark Enquiry”, p.207, MIRA
“In Mendrisio I felt it - the exhilaration of what the bike has to offer. It's a simple machine that conjures a vast mix of emotions. It can evoke the senses and raise the spirits of people who watch. For those who ride it can seem like the perfect vehicle for transport. For those who race, there's no better sensation than being on top of your gear making mountains feel like flat roads. Cycling throws up plenty of obstacles, unknown territory, high speed split-second considerations. Where to next? What's around the next corner? Who cares? You're flyin'!”
“We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.”
“First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.”

Source : Fitzhugh Dodson (1977). “The You That Could Be”, New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks
“In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster.”

Source : "The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences". Book by Ivor Grattan-Guinness, p. 739, 2000.

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