"Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998."

-- Robert MacNeil

#Commitment Quotes #Years Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the reasons my mother didn't want me to go to school too soon. Because I would be beaten to a pulp, you know, if I walked down the street and said there was no such thing as gravity.”
“All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, thereâ€™s always a key out there that opens it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jonathan Kellerman from Mar 27, 2013
“Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked open the botton drawer, retrieved a pair of Nighthawk binoculars, fixed the scopes on him, and fiddled with the focus. Gotcha. Hair the colour of coal. Chocolate brown eyes. A five-o'clock shadow ringing his craggy jawline. Handsome as the day was long... He sauntered towards her, oozing charisma from every pore. Charlee forgot to breathe. And then he committed the gravest sin of all, knocking her world helter-skelter. The scoundrel smiled.”
“An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.”

Source : "The Psychology of Religion". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1927.
“Work/Loaf Ratioâ€...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the â€œW/LRâ€ save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos.”
“We need to roll back precarious employment models. Temporary and limited contracts were initially seen as a way of introducing more flexibility so as to bridge periods of need in certain phases of production. Some employers have taken advantage of the model to push down wages. In general, we must strive for equal pay for equal work.”
“We are not alone in the universe. They have been coming here for a long time...”
“Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.”

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