"To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing."

-- George MacDonald

#Thanks Quotes #Good Things Quotes #Honestly Quotes

“The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed”
“Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.”

Source : "My week" by Christopher Hampton, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.
“The woman who became the Duchesse d'AngoulÃªme did indeed have painful memories, but she was not only very brave but I would say she had "nerves of steel." As I wrote in the book, one woman, defeated, one woman, defiant.”
“I became the singer by default. I didn't know if I could do it. We tried other people, but couldn't find anyone we liked.”
“I love playing outsiders, I always do.”
“By very definition this wilderness is a need. The idea of wilderness as an area without man's influence is man's own concept. Its values are human values. Its preservation is a purpose that arises out of man's own sense of his fundamental needs”

Source : Howard Zahniser, Ed Zahniser, George D. Davis, Paul Schaefer, Douglas W. Scott (1992). “Where Wilderness Preservation Began: Adirondack Writings of Howard Zahniser”, North Country Books Incorporated
“A garden in winter is the absolute test of the true gardener.”
“Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons' language when they speak to women: "a nip," a "tummy tuck."...Surgery changes one forever, the mind as well as the body. If we don't start to speak of it as serious, the millennium of the man-made woman will be upon us, and we will have had no choice.”

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