"I think work is a privilege. ... It keeps you alive, spiritually."

-- Denton Cooley

#Hard Work Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Alive Quotes

“A great cook is made from having a great sense of hospitality and trying to make people happy. Then there's natural talent. Perhaps you have a feel for ingredients, the pots, the pans and stoves, that type of thing.”
“I don't clean, I don't make the bed. I spend my salary. I worry a lot. I just don't worry about socks on the floor.”

Source : "Amanda Peet returns to television". Interview, www.cnn.com. March 21, 2012.
“The people trying to change others can conveniently be termed the angry, while the people trying to change themselves might be called the guilty, although it would be just as descriptive to speak of the controlling and the dependent, or the paranoid and the repressive, or, inelegantly, the screamers and the criers. In some circles, attaching labels to people rates only a little higher than chicken stealing, because ... a label immediately ends attempts to understand the individual.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.109, iUniverse
“The weight of the world isn't on their shoulders as much in Canada as opposed to America. Americans' perception of it is, "Oh, it seems like a pretty nice place to live. And everyone there is nice. So if people around you are nice, you have a tendency to be nicer." What a wonderful lesson for the rest of the world: Just let a little kindness rub off on you.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.”
“When Ma died, I didn't know how to go on, either. I don't know how. I don't feel the same know, not exactly. Now that I see that one day comes after another and you get through them one measure at a time. But I'd like to go, not like Fonda Nye, I don't want to die, I just want to go, away, out of the dust.”

Source : Karen Hesse (1997). “Out of the Dust”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.
“What is there to be said about a Church which certainly promises its believers eternal salvation, but at the same time condemns the non-believers, all those who think differently, to an eternal torment in hell? - If that Church absolutely must talk about love, then it should do so very quietly.”
“Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan.' We have a long way to go.”

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