"Women in particular seem to say things like, "I'm sure I'd be the one screaming and not moving in an emergency." I don't think that's the case. People who've been through really horrible life-or-death situations say that nobody behaves the way they would have expected. But that said, there are predictors."

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Source : "Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster". Interview with Jen Quraishi, www.motherjones.com. June 9, 2008.

Amanda Ripley

#Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional.”
“We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.27, Courier Corporation
“Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.”

Source : Roger Penrose (1999). “The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics”, p.580, OUP Oxford
“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”
“I believe that should is one of the most damaging words in our language. Every time we use it, we are, in effect, saying that we are wrong, or we were wrong, or we're going to be wrong. I would like to take the word should out of our vocabulary forever and replace it with the word could. This word gives us a choice, and we're never wrong.”
“We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.”
“As far as entertainers, I know I'll sound like a clichÃ© but they don't make 'em, like they use to. Barbra Streisand is one of them, also Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. The first theater voice I heard on a record was Ethel Merman and again, they just don't make them like that anymore.”

Source : Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.
“...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.”

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