"I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded."

-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Moving Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Decision Quotes

“A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.”
“This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.”

Source : George F. Will (1999). “The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric”, p.312, Simon and Schuster
“It's June in January because I'm in love.”
“We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.”
“I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.”

Source : Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.
“If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or ever touched, they must be felt with the heart. We should do everything within reason to save a good relationship. But if we are constantly trying to save it, it's probably not a good relationship.”
“If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.”

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