"All those years on the psychiatrist's couch and suddenly the couch is moving. Good God, she is on that couch when the big one hits. Maidy didn't tell you, but you know what her doctor said? She sprang from the couch and said, "My God, was that an earthquake?" The doctor said this: "Did it feel like an earthquake to you?"

-- Amy Hempel

#Moving Quotes #Earthquakes Quotes #Doctors Quotes

“So long as men shall be on earth, there will be tasks for them to do. Some way for them to show their worth. Each day shall bring its problems new. And men shall dream of mightier deeds than ever have been done before. There always shall be human needs for men to work and struggle for.”
“Human science is an uncertain guess.”
“Who but a physicist, in the research lab or the corporation, could mix and match multiple ideas, models, technologies from different disciplines and thrive on change and new ideas...?”
“It's not the best between my family and me. There are so many crimes left unpunished, debts unpaid, white elephants in the middle of the room that no one will even offer a peanut to. We are in the red, emotionally speaking.”
“As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.”

Source : Charles Horton Cooley (2017). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.231, Routledge
“For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.”
“We [the Subban brothers] are role models to a lot of kids, not just black kids, but all kids out there and that's what we want to be known for.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“Deism is compatible with evolutionary theory.”

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