"Some of the greater things are unseen. That's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream."

-- Kathy Baker

#Dream Quotes #Eye Quotes #Kissing Quotes

“I think the people who've been the most overconfident in our business in the last decade have been the people that called themselves risk managers.”

Source : "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.
“For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living.”

Source : Edith Grossman (2010). “Why Translation Matters”, p.26, Yale University Press
“To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep.”
“I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.”
“A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the Right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional - a deracinated principle, unmoored from the realities of history, hierarchy, biology, tradition, culture, values. Conversely, the paleolibertarian grasps that ordered liberty has a civilizational dimension, stripped of which the libertarian non-aggression axiom, by which we all must live, cannot endure.”
“He looked at her. "I will miss you, Montana. For the first time in my life, I'll regret leaving someone behind.”

Source : Susan Mallery (2011). “Only Yours”, p.131, Harlequin
“It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.”
“I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us.”

Source : "All that glisters..." by Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2002.

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