"It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency."

-- Penelope Lively

#Choices Quotes #Contingency Quotes

“Beauty, the smile of God, Music, His voice.”

Source : Robert Underwood Johnson (1919). “Collected Poems, 1881-1919”
“I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields”
“Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.”

Source : Ivan Doig (2009). “The Eleventh Man”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.”
“Iâ€™ve often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when thereâ€™s a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.”
“Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We canâ€™t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other”
“Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.”
“I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.”

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