"Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes #Soil Quotes

“I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.”

Source : "Paddy Considine: 'I'm trying to make sense of a lot of things'" by Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2011.
“We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.”
“The man whose little sermon is â€˜repentâ€™ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone he challenges. There is but one end for such a manâ€”â€˜off with his head!â€™ You had better not try to preach repentance until you have pledged your head to heaven”
“That you can look back fondly or even wistfully on pieces of your life and hound yourself with endless what-ifs, but nothing will change. The present will still be the present. The future will still unfold as it's meant to.”
“A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.”

Source : Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press
“I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.”
“I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.”

Source : "Exclusive: I'm A Cyborg Q&A". Interview With Leigh Singer, www.ign.com. April 4, 2008.

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