"You got a problem?" "Aside from the fact that we are about to die? No. But I want to say thank you before it is too late."

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Source : Diana Pharaoh Francis (2009). “Bitter Night: A Horngate Witches Book”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

Diana Pharaoh Francis

#Too Late Quotes #Want Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.”
“Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.”
“When I look out the window at my backyard, I can't think of anything interesting to ask. I mean, it's green, it's growing-but nothing occurs to me that any concentrated effort of thought could possibly enlighten. Whereas in economic, statistical, or mathematical kinds of things, I can think lots of questions.”

Source : "Inside the Crisis" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. October 12, 2009.
“I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how I'll react. He'll have faced his own placid death and slipped without a sound inside himself. Mostly, I imagine I'll crouch there at the door, fall onto him, and cry hard into the stench of his fur. I'll wait for him to wake up, but he won't. I'll bury him. I'll carry him outside, feeling his warmth turn to cold as the horizon frays and falls down in my backyard. For now, though, he's okay. I can see him breathing. He just smells like he's dead.”
“My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.”
“All labour is directed towards producing some effect.”

Source : Alfred Marshall (2010). “Principles of Economics”, p.65, Cosimo, Inc.
“People of relatively low intelligence can be morally wonderful if they desire the right and the good (not necessarily under the description "right" or "good"). Their low intelligence sometimes results in their accidentally doing something wrong, but doing something wrong out of low intelligence alone is like stepping on a person's foot because you are (literally) blind or missing a cry for help because you are (literally) deaf. We do not judge the blind or deaf person as morally bad.”
“I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.”

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