"The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August day. In retrospect, it seems inevitable - it could not have been any other way-- a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable"

-- Robert James Waller

#August Quotes #Retrospect Quotes #Way Quotes

“People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.”
“From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,”

Source : Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.189, Univ of California Press
“Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body”

Source : Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.21, Atlantic Books Ltd
“The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.”

Source : Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I don't think anyone who has followed the progress of the Islamofascist terrorists who have threatened us believe we are going to be safe if we try a fortress mentality, to step back and say no one is going to hit us, they don't care about the United States. They do.”
“Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.”
“Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.”
“Just as a seed grows with the warmth of the sun, so our positive qualities grow when we put our attention on them.”

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