"The purpose of life is to get as close as we can to other people."

-- John Verdon

#People Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few afternoons long, in the end. As for flying, Dose never even glanced at the sky. Flying was a summer within a summer, a whim. So why think of it at all?”
“I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.”
“Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it. We think terrible events have made us into stone. But love slips in like a chisel - and suddenly it is an ax, breaking us into pieces from the inside.”
“I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.”
“Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.”
“Society is better off without certain people.”
“The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.”
“Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.”

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