"Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Years Quotes #Cost Quotes #Minutes Quotes

“A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.”
“I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.”
“I think that we need to make it our goal to define freedom for ourselves.”

Source : "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.
“Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Daddy began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls.”

Source : Timothy B. Tyson (2007). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, p.16, Broadway Books
“Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.”
“I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.”
“It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.”
“Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.”

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