"L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever."

-- Lee Child

#Car Quotes #Forever Quotes #Climate Quotes

“Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.”
“If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.”
“I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing so astonishes and insults Christians of this sort as reminding them of their Christianity on a week-day.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.1379, e-artnow sro
“I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.”
“Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter...will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age.”
“The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the cobblestones from which we build roads of analysis, mosaic tiles that we fit together to compose pictures of past and present. There will be disagreement about where the road leads and what reality or truth is revealed by the mosaic picture. The facts themselves must be checked against all the available evidence. But some are round and hard--and the most powerful leaders in the world can trip over them. So can writers, dissidents and saints.”
“The illusion is we are only physical.”
“Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.”

Source : "Peter Carey: making it up as he goes along" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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