"Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood."

-- Tom Chatfield

#Proxy Quotes #Attentiveness Quotes #Understood Quotes

“I wanted to give people a glimpse of my lifestyle and into the lifestyle of me and all my friends and all the people that I know. It's basically just coming up and going up. It's about growing up, elevating, chilling and vibing. And smoking. I wanted to make a piece of art that you could put on while you are hot boxing your car and riding around with your friends.”
“Getting fit is a political act - you are taking charge of your life.”
“Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids of its rivers, on the limitless reaches of its western plains, in the silent vastness of primeval forests, and in the blizzard-ridden passes of the Rockies and Coast ranges.”
“How much easier is it to be generous than just.”

Source : Junius (1806). “The Letters of Junius Complete: Interspersed with the Letters and Articles to which He Replied, and with Notes, Biographical and Explanatory; Also a Prefatory Enquiry Respecting the Real Author”, p.191
“I think things ultimately work out the way they're supposed to, even if it's not always the most comfortable, cushy way.”

Source : Beth Harbison (2007). “Shoe Addicts Anonymous”, p.207, Macmillan
“The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.”
“I'm there [on Moana] with the other actors, so you play off one another. It's not just your idea of what the character is and what the world is like it would be in an animated [film], where it all sort of exists in your head. It's all right there, and if Diego's performance is doing what it's doing, it affects yours.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.”

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