"She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes produce to make my life more difficult."

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Source : Gary Shteyngart (2006). “Absurdistan: A Novel”, p.212, Random House

Gary Shteyngart

#Sweet Quotes #Hands Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I humbly believe our life is to learn our nothingness and His being everything; when we agree with Him that we are nothing and not astonished at our evil nature breaking forth, when we are willing for the last to be first, when we are willing to be the least in Heaven that every one we know should be higher than ourselves, then, I think, our lesson is learnt. If we are annoyed at any disparaging remark or conduct of our fellows, it is because we are not yet fully aware of our being nothing.”

Source : Charles George Gordon (1888). “Letters of General C.G. Gordon to His Sister, M.A. Gordon”, London ; New York : Macmillan
“Every problem contains a solution. The key is self-discipline and surrender of the mental habits to the Holy Spirit.”
“I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.”
“Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.”
“There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.”
“The nature of the hybrid research/design model means that we often can see design efforts as attempts not to concretize the outcomes of research but instead to justify, promote, or initiate them”

Source : Paul Dourish, Genevieve Bell (2011). “Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing”, p.40, MIT Press
“We're not going to baby sit a civil war.”
“Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road whistling a tune, the next moment the car right in front of you spins out of control and crashes. How you prepare for those unpredictable occurrences determines whether you live or die. Always leave an empty lane to your right or left for escape.”

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