"There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women."

-- Marisha Pessl

#Mind Quotes #Bending Quotes #World Quotes

“Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.”
“If youâ€™re alive, donâ€™t move, if youâ€™re dead, donâ€™t worry about it.”
“I know that our country is strongest when we lead the world, when we lead strong alliances. And that's the way Eisenhower and Reagan and Kennedy and others did it.”
“We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.”

Source : Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, Hamilton Wright Mabie (1904). “The Outlook”
“O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.”

Source : Aimee Semple McPherson (2009). “This is That: Personal Experiences Sermons and Writings of Aimee Semple McPherson”, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.”
“Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum.”

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.

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