"There is too little courtship in the world."

-- Vernon Lee

#Littles Quotes #World Quotes #Courtship Quotes

“â€¦it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.”
“The problem Philip Morris had with electronic cigarettes since the beginning of development was the satisfaction of the smoker. Because the taste is dramatically different and, at the initial stages, the nicotine pharmacokinetics were very slow. You could not get the satisfaction. It's not so easy to crack this code. The taste satisfaction is very important. The closest you are to this, the more chances you have to switch people. It's very nice to have a zero-risk product, but if nobody uses it, you don't have any reduction in public health risk.”
“Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.”
“We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.”
“What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.”
“I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.”
“You can cook when you're hungry or cook to make a living or to feel creative or even just as a distraction, but cooking for the people whom you wake up with and go to sleep with is the best thing ever”

Source : Kim Severson (2010). “Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life”, p.104, Penguin
“Everybody knows you're going to miss some. It's just the reality and the probability of it. It's the ultimate paradox for a kicker. You go out expecting to make every kick, but you also know it's probably not going to happen. So you have these two conflicting thoughts and realities. The really good kickers are the ones who can process that information. That's what I'm learning to do.”

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