"My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away."

-- Simone de Beauvoir

#Memories Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Racing Quotes

“So there will be a bill. We've been working on it now for a year.”
“Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly.”
“The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (2010). “Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament: Essays 2002-2008”, p.34, Oxford University Press
“At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.”
“I think my interest gets sparked when I recognize a memory. That is when I take a picture.”
“Don't run your life by what's legal or illegal. Run your life based on what's right or wrong.”
“I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.”
“If your values are not used as the constitution of your organization, or if they are compromised, they become just words on paper.”

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