"When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and some days we could tight-rope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This is natural. This is change."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Emotional Quotes #Decision Quotes #Teeth Quotes

“I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.”
“She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.”
“Yeah, the cut throats and the pigs. But who wants all that blood spilled, judge, huh? Isn't there a simpler way of not pissing off the big vipers?”

Source : "Fictional character: Al Swearengen". "Deadwood" TV series, Season 1, Episode 5: "The Trial of Jack McCall", April 18, 2004.
“I mean it used to be, there was a time â€¦ when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.”
“Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it”
“I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?”
“People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.”
“Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.”

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