"I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs."

-- Anne Tyler

#Baby Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the delay between the identification of tainted foods and the company's decision to recall those foods leads to the needless sickness of too many Americans.”

Source : "What’s Needed to Protect Our Nation’s Food Supply" by Rep. Diana DeGette, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2009.
“Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.”
“Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.”
“This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.”
“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”
“The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.”
“We live in an age where truth really doesn't matter anymore.”
“At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.”

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