"I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my fatherâ€™s had become, during his earlier years of a millerâ€™s life."

-- Jane Addams

#Father Quotes #Believe Quotes #Ambition Quotes

“A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.”
“We receive and we lose, and we must try to achieve gratitude; and with that gratitude to embrace with whole hearts whatever of life that remains after the losses.”

Source : Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.143, Open Road Media
“The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Sweet sixteen today. She's looking like her momma a little more every day.”

Source : Song: Butterfly Kisses After Bedtime Prayer
“Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over.”
“Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will claim us and exact its dues. If we go to that realm consciously, it is by our inner work: our prayers, meditations, dream work, ceremonies, and Active Imagination. If we try to ignore the inner world, as most of us do, the unconscious will find its way into our lives through pathology: our psychosomatic symptoms, compulsions, depressions, and neuroses.”
“As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.”
“Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.”

Source : "Planets Deserve Better Names". Interview with Stephen P. Craft, www.slate.com. February 23, 2013.

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