"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear."

--

Richard Bach

#Life Quotes #Fear Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
“It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.”

Source : "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.
“A lot of times I think people, when they're doing a movie that's a family movie, they're worried about this being too esoteric or too dark or too weird.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at a time, it didn't think that the master, who lived alone and seemed to have few friends, would have wanted a toaster of such institutional proportions. With toast, it's quality that matters, not quantity.”

Source : Thomas M. Disch (1986). “The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers
“In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.”
“Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.”
“I know I'm honest and dependable, usually. I know I'm always dependable for my wife. I'm always at home and I'm always there to help.”
“Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.”

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