"it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday."

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Source : "The Tunnel". Book by William H. Gass, www.drmardy.com. 1995.

William H. Gass

#Past Quotes #Yesterday Quotes #Thunderstorm Quotes

“She looked back to see Sam standing there at the edge of the strip of sunlight inside Common Grounds, staring after her with an expression on his face like he'd lost his best- his only friend.”
“You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.”
“At once, itâ€™s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just donâ€™t have the arrogance. Apparently, Iâ€™m too â€œvulnerableâ€ for ferocity. Iâ€™m not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all.”
“At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.”

Source : Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.90, Columbia University Press
“The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.”
“These qualities - things like deep listening, collaboration, flexibility, tapping into our emotions - seem to me to be the kinds of qualities that are intrinsic to women. I think that's the thing I'm most excited about: continuing to promote women in the workplace.”
“And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced.”
“Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.”

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