"An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful."

-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#Jobs Quotes #Dubious Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“This same formula by which Buddhists so anti-rationalistically and anti-banausically describe the "relation" between soul and body also applies to the relation between lover and lover, parent and child, member and community.”
“It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the bad girl or the good girl or the bad mother or the good mother, the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children or the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies, all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.”
“I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.”
“Man belongs to the Earth, Earth does not belong to man”

Source : Chief Seattle, “This we know”
“And, my God, the actors. The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. Itâ€™s such a pleasure to see how theyâ€™ve embodied the characters and brought them to life.”
“I've been broke, and I've been in debt, and broke is better.”
“A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins---that we have no power of ourselves either to save ourselves or to convince anyone else that we are worth saving. It is the recognition that our whole life is out of our hands and that if we ever live again, our life will be entirely the gift of some gracious shepherd. God finds us the desert of death (not in the garden of improvement) and in the power of Jesus' resurrection, he puts us on his shoulders rejoicing and brings us home.”
“Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an important match, an allotted time daily to bicycling and shadow-boxing, followed by a cold douche and a brisk rub down?”

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