"We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!"

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Source : "20 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself". The Oprah Magazine Interview, www.oprah.com. April, 2014.

Alice McDermott

#Sea Quotes #Way Quotes #Mercy Quotes

“Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality”
“Being on stage is so much fun and enjoyable. Because itâ€™s a lot of fun, we work really hard on music programs and our eyes automatically open up. Because this is where Iâ€™m most confident and where Iâ€™m at my best, I found a way to enjoy all of it. And Iâ€™m still searching for more ways.”
“I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space'. Now I am an algebraic object, so I must say goodbye to my home village, the space, but I will always keep it in my heart as a set of maximal ideals.”
“I hope to always be doing some low budget things.”

Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. September 11, 2003.
“I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.”

Source : "Horizon (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out)". Documentary (November 23, 1981), later published in "No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman" edited by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.
“There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.”

Source : "The Trial of the Germans" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 50), 1997.
“I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.”
“We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul.”

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