"There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could."

-- Joan Didion

#Grieving Quotes #Impulse Quotes #Persons Quotes

“In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.”

Source : "Chung-shan Ch'üan-shu (Zhongshan Quanshu), vol. II". Book by Sun Yat-sen, 1936.
“I learned how to be a woman and a good person just by watching and observing my mother.”

Source : "Cynthia’s Synergy!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.
“There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.”
“We know that a large majority of the Australian society is extremely comfortable with a multicultural society, that we accept that living in a democracy means having a freedom to practise your religion within the limits of the law.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.”
“I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.”
“Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart people everywhere. What they are those religious apologists are smart poeple who can build these amazingly intricate rationalizations for whatever weird practice they favor. Whether it's ritual cannibalism, or praying to spirits, or treating women as chattel. And they always building this on terrible shaky foundation of false premises.”
“You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.”

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