"You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?"

-- Norton Juster

#Holiday Quotes #Care Quotes #Doing Nothing Quotes

“No day is alike, nor should it be.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Representative Donna Edwards (D, Md.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 15, 2010.
“The Regulars are coming out!”
“We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.”
“I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.”

Source : E.L. Doctorow (2010). “Ragtime: A Novel”, p.66, Random House
“I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.”

Source : "Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" by Susan Ratcliffe, (p. 208), 2012.
“Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.”
“Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.”
“Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed at itâ€“how fast it goes, how slowly it goes, how much of it is gone. Where, we cry, has the time gone? We arenâ€™t adapted to it, not at home in it. If that is so, it may appear as a proof, or at least a powerful suggestion, that eternity exists and is our home.”

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