"How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?"

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Life Quotes #Cynical Quotes #One Day Quotes

“I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.”
“God is erratic, sometimes vindictive, sometimes merciful. The people I was taught were heroes - Jacob or Moses or David - were ambivalent figures, or worse. But that messiness was joyful, and challenging. I loved having a Bible that I could argue with.”

Source : "Biblically Speaking". Online chat, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.
“When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.”
“I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.”
“Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.”
“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.”

Source : "WindFall: The End of the Affair". Book by William F. Buckley Jr., 1992.
“No other serial publications carry a number on them that is of any weight to their readership. The number is there to serve a function, but it has no intrinsic value in and of itself. It's comfort food and nostalgia at best. On this, we follow what you and your fellow readers do more than what you say. We hear complaints about renumbering every time we do it, but every time we do it it results in higher sales, which is the whole ballgame - so if it were your time and your effort, what would you do?”
“The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.”

Source : Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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