"The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder."

-- Cleveland Amory

#Today Quotes #Graves Quotes

“We knew we'd be together, we didn't know when, But long distance love, never thought it would end. The feelings never changed until the call came... You were engaged, I was in pain. It was such a shame: the timing, it just wasn't right. So I say, 'Good luck,' and then I say, 'Good night.'”
“Regardless, I decided to never take LSD again.”
“Holly is the fourth-prettiest girl in the class, but the top 3 all have boyfriends. So a lot of guys like me are doing everything they can to get in good with her.”
“I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.”
“I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need solitude, and seek alienation of a kind every day of their working lives. (And remember, they are not even aware when and when not they are working.) ... The tension between standing apart and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.”

Source : Nadine Gordimer (1983). “Selected Stories”, Viking Press
“I want to show the world that there is life, surprising, wonderful, and unexpected life...after diagnosis”
“...while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end of the line, to the poorest and neediest--the children.”

Source : Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.3, WaterBrook
“In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.”

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