"I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair."

-- Elizabeth Goudge

#Sacrifice Quotes #Self Quotes #Play Quotes

“Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues.”
“I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice barrier against super high heat which tends to make a lot of fish to turn really flaky. It's very easy to overcook fish on the grill. But I still brush it with oil before I start.”
“If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.”
“It's kind of like when a clock battery runs down. The hour and minute hands don't disappear, but they don't keep ticking either. They freeze on the last minute they measured.”
“If you love something and stick with it, you will get phenomenal results.”
“I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil.”

Source : "U.S. report cites Russians in oil-for-food probe" by Phil Hirschkorn, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2005.
“Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us has become a storage room without a key. We are forced to suppress or forget so many events and ideas and thoughts that those to which we should have access are lost in the welter. However, there are people who seem capable of unlocking this part of their minds and extracting relevant information.”

Source : Margaret Millar (1942). “The weak-eyed bat”, Published for The Crime club by Doubleday, Doran
“Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]”

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