"I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes."

-- Amiri Baraka

#Hate Quotes #Eye Quotes #Looks Quotes

“One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you - and nobody even notices.”

Source : Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation
“I was lucky enough to watch my son hit a grand slam at sports camp, and that was great. Yes, I may miss some things, but honestly, I think I get to see more than a dad who works a daily 9 to 5.”

Source : "CC Sabathia Hits One Out of the Park With His Children". Intervie with Ilyssa Panitz, www.parents.com.
“Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.”
“A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.”
“Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.”
“There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it”
“The goal in tasting wine is not to "find" the same aromas and flavors some other taster is describing. If you hone your own perceptual abilities and develop the vocabulary to articulate them, you'll not only derive more pleasure from the wine itself, but also stimulate better communication between you and the friends who are sharing the bottle.”
“We have in our head something called story grammar. We see the world as a series of episodes rather than logical propositions... In our serious society, storytelling is seen as being soft. But people process the world through story.”

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