"Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City."

-- Therese Anne Fowler

#New York Quotes #Cities Quotes

“The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.”
“Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days. The Old Testament is clear that this was a strong patriarchal family. Men were permitted several wives and concubines. Children were legitimately conceived by these concubines outside of marriage. . . . Is this the Evangelical's idea of an ideal family?”
“There is no principle involved in my holdout. Only money.”
“Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.”

Source : "Summers at Castle Auburn". Book by Sharon Shinn, 2001.
“I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.”
“I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.”
“Zara [Phillips] skis very well but is happy to take it easy around me. She will often wait for me when I'm on my snowboard but she can really whizz around if she needs to. I only snowboard if I'm on my own with Zara; if we're with other people who want to go a bit quicker, I will stick with skis.”
“The vicarious responsibility for things we have not done, this taking upon ourselves the consequences for things we are entirely innocent of, is the price we pay for the fact that we live our lives not by ourselves but among our fellow men, and that the faculty of action, which, after all, is the political faculty par excellence, can be actualized only as one of the many and manifold forces of human community.”

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