"She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes thatâ€™s the best you can do with people. Iâ€™d tried kindness. Iâ€™d tried friendship. Iâ€™d tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job."

-- Laurell K. Hamilton

#Jobs Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.”
“As the Quakers say, "When you pray, move your feet."”
“As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."”
“Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life.”
“That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science and religion but to the flexibility, in both the physical and metaphysical senses, of the human brain.”

Source : Susan Jacoby (2005). “Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism”, p.132, Macmillan
“I canâ€™t even think about what life â€œcould have beenâ€ like in Boston, without crying. Itâ€™s like deja-vu, I donâ€™t think me and Boston were ever meant to be.”
“Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.”
“My cat can eat a whole watermelon.”

Source : "Fictional character: Rubin Farr". "Rubin and Ed", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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