"We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?"

-- Nick Hornby

#Building Quotes #Sandcastles Quotes

“Happiness is the readiness to be happy.”
“Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of reality come from?' 'Did time have a beginning?'”

Source : "Greene, With Curiosity". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2010.
“Look at what Bush has done. The economy took an incredible hit after September 11. That was a huge shock to the economy. And we've recovered a lot quicker than we thought, thanks to Bush and his economic policy.”
“We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask it, we shall not find it is owing to ignorance, but to wisdom. For it was not to our advantage to know; in order that we being ignorant of the actual moments of judgment to come, might ever be as it were on guard, and set on the watch-tower of virtue, and so avoid the habits of sin; lest the day of the Lord should come upon us in the midst of our wickedness.”
“How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of the German bombs could possibly equal the things we have done ourselves!”

Source : "Tribune", Quoted by George Orwell, December 31, 1943.
“You must learn to define the problem before you attempt to cure it.”
“. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.”
“We need music to restore the human spirit”

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