"The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order."

-- Milan Kundera

#Order Quotes #Longing Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to the Top,' states can win federal support for schools by improving teacher evaluations.”
“If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.”
“I'm always leaving, but I never have anywhere to go.”

Source : Courtney Summers (2010). “Fall for Anything”, p.115, Macmillan
“We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle.”
“I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.”
“In order to understand the phenomena in a certain plasma region, it is necessary to map not only the magnetic but also the electric field and the electric currents. Space is filled with a network of currents which transfer energy and momentum over large or very large distances. The currents often pinch to filamentary or surface currents. The latter are likely to give space, as also interstellar and intergalactic space, a cellular structure.”
“The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.”
“The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.”

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