"There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it."

-- Antony Jay

#Ideas Quotes #Done Quotes #Lines Quotes

“Feel for others - in your pocket”
“Earthbound souls know only the underside of the atmosphere in which they live . . . but go higher - above the dust and water vapor - and the sky turns dark until one can see the stars at noon.”
“You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.”
“I found real fulfillment through my children and through adopting special needs kids.”
“ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.”
“Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?”

Source : Bette Greene (1988). “Morning is a long time coming”, Starfire
“Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?”
“And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choose one over the other. Mark Twain didn't have to. Charles Dickens didn't.”

Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.164, Bloomsbury Publishing

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