"Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's."

-- Charles Ives

#Expression Quotes #Matter Quotes #Term Quotes

“You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.”
“There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.”
“You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.”
“It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.”

Source : Patricia Moyes (1961). “Down Among the Dead Men”
“I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.”
“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions â€” they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.”
“My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden.”
“When we believe in our child fully, we trust that they are doing the very best they can at every moment, given their age, past experience and present circumstances. It is this kind of trust that I mean when I talk about parenting being on their child's side. Having someone dependably 'on their side' is absolutely critical if a child is to grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. If we aren't on their side, who will be?”

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