"If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is."

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Source : Rebecca Stead (2012). “Liar & Spy”, p.38, Wendy Lamb Books

Rebecca Stead

#Water Quotes #Tears Quotes #Needs Quotes

“The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such things. . . . When we are grasping the inexpressible meaning of these things, this is life, this is living. To do this twenty-four hours a day is the Way of Haiku. It is having life more abundantly.”

Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1995). “The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”
“No tribute is laid on castles in the air.”
“Well, the actual function of the brain, not so sure yet. There's a lot of different theories about it, but when you talk about psychologically in your brain, a lot of people with insomnia, though not all, report that they can't turn their minds off.”
“History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.”

Source : David Wojnarowicz (1994). “David Wojnarowicz: brush fires in the social landscape”
“I want fifteen referees at this fightâ€¦because there ainâ€™t no one man who can keep up with the pace Iâ€™m gonna set except me”
“God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.”
“When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose. You can't imagine. And I think there's something in human nature that wants to finish the story.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“When we speak of ordinary unqualified knowledge, my thought is that we are implicitly relativizing to the standards imposed by our evolution-derived humanity. These are standards that determine when we consider it appropriate to store beliefs just as a human being, rather than in one's capacity as an expert of one or another sort. Such stored beliefs are to be available for later use in one's own thought or in testimony to others.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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