"For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?"

-- Sarah Waters

#Love Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Counting Quotes

“The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.”
“The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.”
“The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.”
“Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.”
“Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache.”

Source : Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.
“I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I wouldn't say I'm girl-crazy, because that makes me sound like a bit of a womanizer. That isn't really me. But I am quite flirty - maybe too flirty. I'm an 18-year-old boy, and I like to have fun!”
“We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.”

Source : Peter Salovey, Marc A. Brackett, John D. Mayer (2004). “Emotional Intelligence: Key Readings on the Mayer and Salovey Model”, p.1961, National Professional Resources Inc./Dude Publishing

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