"He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is."

-- Cormac McCarthy

#Giving Quotes #Lovers Quotes

“One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.”
“Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.”

Source : "Small Business chief sees small firms as vital to recovery". Interview with Laura Petrecca, www.usatoday.com. August 29, 2010.
“Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind.”

Source : Susan Cheever (2001). “As Good As I Could Be: A Memoir About Raising Wonderful Children in an Imperfect World”, p.176, Simon and Schuster
“When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.”
“Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them -- the one, in fact, which is not a mask.”

Source : "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("One of the Family"), (p. 369), 1973.
“Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years as its biochemical parts share information, and it responds with individualized defenses, but it isn't conscious and it has no memory. The host of that party didn't decree that everyone would gather in the kitchen, but it happened anyway. Emergence means we sometimes act in concert for better or worse.”
“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.”
“It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.”

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