"Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better, Philomene said, what is good enough slips away."

-- Lalita Tademy

#Life Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it was candles, did she think she'd done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips, and the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?”
“It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, Morley Baer, James Karman (2001). “Stones of the Sur”, p.20, Stanford University Press
“Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.”

Source : "Making Presidential History". Online chat, www.slate.com. August 9, 2007.
“LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination.”
“I think that Donald Trump, how many times during the campaign did he tell us that his plan for dealing with foreign policy was to be unpredictable? Well, there we have it.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I was largely drinking to forget where I was. When youâ€™re in a place like Vietnam, you get to a point where you donâ€™t care any more. Youâ€™re in a place thatâ€™s foreign to you, and you know for a fact that many people there hate you and will kill you if they get the chance. It really does something to your mind to know that many of the people living around you donâ€™t like you and want you to die.”
“At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which I likened my fate as a woman to other victims throughout the ages.”
“I don't really read books. Wish I did.”

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