"We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want."

-- Siri Hustvedt

#Want Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“We need real farmers who grow real food, and the will to reform a broken food system. And for that, we need not only to celebrate farmers, but also to advocate for them.”

Source : Mark Bittman (2015). “A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more”, p.48, Clarkson Potter
“I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.”
“Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.”

Source : Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.”

Source : Ross Macdonald (2011). “The Zebra-Striped Hearse”, p.9, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best overall setting to make discoveries about the world around us. We don't think this is merely coincidental. It cries out for another explanation, an explanation that... points to purpose and intelligent design in the cosmos.”

Source : Guillermo Gonzalez, Jay Wesley Richards (2004). “The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery”, p.15, Regnery Publishing
“Real riches are the riches possessed inside.”

Source : B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.3, Lulu.com
“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.”
“My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.”

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