"The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage. The wet centre is bottomless."

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Seamus Heaney

#Might Quotes #Wetness Quotes #Centre Quotes

“I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't always like you.' But what kind of love is that? It seems to me that comes down to, 'I'm not oblivious to you - that is, you can still hurt my feelings - but I can't stand having you around.' Who wants to be loved like that? Given a choice, I might skip the deep blood tie and settle for being liked. I wonder if wouldn't have been more moved if my own mother had taken me in her arms and said, 'I like you.' I wonder if just enjoying your kid's company isn't more important.”
“Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.”
“If you are not prepared to look at your pupils strength's, don't touch their weaknesses.”
“No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.”
“There are so many quirky characters, its easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on The Carrie Diaries.”

Source : "'The Carrie Diaries' Brendan Dooling On The Challenges Of Playing A Gay Teen In The '80s". Interview with Louis Peitzman, www.buzzfeed.com. April 4, 2013.
“Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy, but they try it and that is why we have so much problems with some financial models.”
“One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]”
“Libyans have to work together for a new Libya. They should keep in place the sinews of security.”

Source : "Libyans must avoid post-Gaddafi revenge attacks, says Britain" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2011.

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