"At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which private life unfolded the gripping show of its adventures. Nowadays, time moves forward at a rapid pace. Forgotten overnight, a historic event glistens the next day like the morning dew and thus is no longer the backdrop to a narrator's tale but rather an amazing adventure enacted against the background of the over-familiar banality of private life."

-- Milan Kundera

#Morning Quotes #Moving Quotes #Adventure Quotes

“I'll perform all the way to the grave.”

Source : FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Sep 19, 2012
“By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.”

Source : Edwin Markham (1900). “The Man with the Hoe; with Notes by the Author”
“In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.”
“It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.”

Source : Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.100, Read Books Ltd
“Men have an easier time buying bathing suits. Women have two types: depressing and more depressing. Men have two types: nerdy and not nerdy.”
“The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.”

Source : Frank Waters (1999). “Mountain Dialogues”, Swallow Press
“Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.”
“If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.”

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