"She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour."

-- E. M. Forster

#Half Quotes #Hours Quotes

“Love is very important in The First Man, in that [Albert] Camus loves these things he never chose, he loves his childhood experience in a very real way. Their poverty meant that there was nothing else they could think about but what they would eat, how they would clothe themselves. There's just no room for other things in his family. It's difficult for others to imagine the position in which he found himself. There is no imaginary existence in their lives.”
“Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation.”
“I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.”
“Youâ€™ll come with us,â€ she said. â€œSure,â€ Gavin said. â€œIt wasnâ€™t a request.â€ â€œYes it was,â€ Gavin said. â€œWhen you donâ€™t have power to compel obedience, by definition youâ€™re making a request.”
“I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.”
“The mostimportant victory is the one which has to arrive.”
“The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the early years of the 21st Century. They had built institutions filled with lawyers and scientists well suited to lobby policy makers who basically shared their world view. This worked well when liberals controlled the Congress and much of the federal bureaucracy, and when the politics of the time were more supportive of active government efforts to regulate the economy and clean up the environment.”
“The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern unfold.”

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