"She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you."

-- Khaled Hosseini

#Odds Quotes #Worry Quotes #Stupidity Quotes

“A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.”
“I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.”
“There are always ups and downs when you lose a player the caliber of Matt Ryan.”
“To me, the quarterback position is about getting your team out of bad things and into good ones.”
“Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.”
“Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.”

Source : Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult
“Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.”

Source : Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.13, Harvard University Press
“What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest appreciation of our reality. And, so, we have to work even harder as writers against this tide of silliness, against this tide of superficiality, against this horrible Greek chorus on Twitter where everyone is insulting each other and now we have an insulter-in-chief, who's risen to the presidency by insulting people.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com

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