"I like to eat alone in restaurants, with a book, particularly if I am out of town, alone, on business. It's relaxing. I feel not even a twinge of embarrassment. Is this gender-related? Is there a lingering feeling among women that if they are alone in public, they will be judged to be spinsters or spinsters-to-be?"

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Source : "Chatological Humor: The Big Fat Debate, Part 2". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2009.

Gene Weingarten

#Book Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Towns Quotes

“We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.”
“An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.”
“At the end of the day, it's, 'Can we contribute as a group?' There are things that are going to happen.”
“In order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer, is, to continue praying; for the less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.”

Source : "A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller". Book by George Müller, First Part, 1837.
“I wake up every morning and thank God I live in a country where all of this is possible. Where you have the Yankee ingenuity to roll up your sleeves, get a band of people who believe in something and go for it and make it happen. It doesn't happen anywhere else.”
“Any opening is good enough, if its reputation is bad enough.”
“I kind of put myself out there as is. I'm a quiet person. I don't know if that's surprising. I'm a Pilates junkie.”
“If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans.”

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