"That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame."

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Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

M. L. Stedman

#Silence Quotes #Goes On Quotes #Shame Quotes

“When not protected by law, by popular favor or superstition, or by other special circumstances, [birds] yield very readily to the influences of civilization, and, though the first operations of the settler are favorable to the increase of many species, the great extension of rural and of mechanical industry is, in a variety of ways, destructive even to tribes not directly warred upon by man.”

Source : George Perkins Marsh (2001). “So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh”, University Press of New England
“It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.”
“Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.”
“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”
“If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beautyâ€”by forms, I am referring to coherent systems of hypotheses, axioms, etc.â€”to forms that no one has previously encountered, we cannot help thinking that they are â€œtrue,â€ that they reveal a genuine feature of natureâ€¦. You must have felt this too: the almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of the relationships which nature suddenly spreads out before us and for which none of us was in the least prepared.”
“There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.”
“The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.”
“I know that Oprah and I mean a lot to each other... I know at all times I have somebody that I can count on always.”

Source : "Gayle King on Relationship and Career With Oprah Winfrey: 'I Don't See Myself Standing in Oprah's Shadows, Ever'" by Lauren Effron, Steven Baker, abcnews.go.com. May 18, 2011.

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