"Where we can compete on merit, we do very well."

-- James L. Barksdale

#Merit Quotes #Wells Quotes

“To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.”
“Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.”

Source : Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.75, Atlantic Books Ltd
“My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.”
“For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.”
“At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.”
“It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.”
“She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.”
“You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.”

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