"I don't know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it's the only time you've got. You can either sit on your expletive deleted or pick a daisy."

-- Art Buchwald

#Reality Quotes #Daisies Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“Ane bow that is ay bent Worthis ay unsmart and dullis on the string; Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent In ernistfull thochtis and in studying.”

Source : c.1470 Moral Fables, prologue, l.21-5.
“A lot of people say to me, 'Why did you kill Christ?' I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know.”
“In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.”

Source : Isaac Williams (1842). “The Baptistery, Or The Way of Eternal Life by the Author of "The Cathedral" [i.e. Isaac Williams]”, p.120
“Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.”
“The flesh is what traps us, because no one has ever chosen his or her body to live in, has he? It's the flesh that makes us sick, that makes us old and that eventually ends up killing us. But at the same time, it's that glorious flesh that enables us to scratch heaven through sensuality, through passion. Paradoxically, the flesh that kills us will also make us feel eternal for a brief moment because that's what we are in passion, eternal - we abandon ourselves, we give ourselves to the other, so much that when we are loving passionately, death doesn't exist.”
“One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.”
“I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.”

Source : Interview with Michael Barbaro, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2010.
“We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once itâ€™s gone â€“ its value is incontestable.”

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