"We have heard enough about being practical and efficient and prudent. We heard it preached through several decades that these things would save the world. I think that, with the salty taste of blood and sweat on our lips, we are learning that we had best talk once again about doing what is right."

-- Ellis Arnall

#Learning Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Blood Quotes

“Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt-and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness-a little relieved when they were over. Her normal life pleased her so well that she was half afraid to step out of its frame in case one day she should find herself unable to get back.”

Source : Jan Struther (1942). “Mrs. Miniver”, p.3, Prabhat Prakashan
“It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each story took so long and took so much out of me, that when I finished it, I was like, Oh my gosh, I feel like I've poured everything from myself into this, and then I'd get depressed for a week. And then once I was ready to write a new story, I would want to write about something that was completely different, so I would search for a totally different character with a different set of circumstances.”
“The retreat and disappearance of glaciersâ€”there are only 160,000 leftâ€”means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by glacier, rib by rib, we're living the Fall.”
“Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.”
“Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area.”
“I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.”

Source : "Rachel Bilson is ready for kids". www.imdb.com. April 25, 2012.
“We get several requests for contributions each year from organizations in Twin Falls. We don't have enough money in the general fund to help everyone, so we use fundraisers like this to generate money.”
“I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.”

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