"It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain."

-- Meghan O'Rourke

#Pain Quotes #Sibling Quotes #Grief Quotes

“I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.”
“In my senior year of high school, I was working at a dealership washing cars. For some reason, I asked them to give me a shot as a salesman for a shift. What happened was I sold two cars in one day and they offered me the position. After a while I decided I didn't want the job and so I told the manager I'd contracted HIV from having unprotected sex. It was only half true but I'd been feeling sick and somehow convinced myself I was really dying. I remember I sat in my boss' office, the both of us crying. Later than night he calls my dad and says 'I'm sorry your son has HIV.' It was terrible.”
“Donâ€™t try to be anybody else because thatâ€™s what makes you not swaggy.”
“There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.”
“Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.”
“Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.”

Source : George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons
“You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright.”
“Externalists reject any such view. I think that the idea that we can tell, simply by way of reflection, whether our beliefs are justified, is deeply commonsensical. More than that, the idea that responsible epistemic agents ought to reflect on their beliefs, and hold them only if they somehow pass muster, is utterly natural.”

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