"When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking."

-- Gail Sheehy

#Funny Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Witty Quotes

“I cannot find my way: there is no star In all the shrouded heavens anywhere”

Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson (2007). “Robinson: Poems”, Everyman's Library
“You have celebrities who are pushed to the brink of a public meltdown, and so the public thinks that every person in the public eye has dirty secrets that they're keeping, or isn't what they seem, or is masking it and faking sincerity, faking authenticity, faking being surprised at award shows when you win a Grammy.”
“Sustainability has become a religion in architecture - not that there's anything wrong with it - but I think it has to work both ways. Everyone thinks architecture has to be subservient to sustainability, but what if we thought in the other direction, like, what can sustainability do to make architecture more exciting?”

Source : Source: www.revelinnewyork.com
“I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.”
“Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.”

Source : Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.73
“Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.”
“Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.”

Source : "We must start thinking like South American dictators" by Gavyn Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2008.
“God has just always put me in the right place I guess.”

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