"I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it."

-- Emma Thompson

#Daughter Quotes #Baby Quotes #Helping Others Quotes

“Life hits you hard. But it takes you three seconds to decide if you are a superhero or not. I am.”
“All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.”
“The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.”
“We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.”
“I'm not not looking for a girlfriend - but I'm not particularly looking for a girlfriend, either. I'm not knocking having a relationship; at the end of the day, you want to share with someone. But I just look at it as, I have the rest of my life to do that. I'm not in any rush.”

Source : "Chace Crawford Leads People's Hottest Bachelor List" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. June 17, 2009.
“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”
“A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.”
“Speech is the best show a man puts on.”

Source : Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Bissell Carroll (1964). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.249, MIT Press

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