"I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right."

-- Laurie Halse Anderson

#Eye Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.”

Source : Iris Johansen (2010). “One Touch of Topaz”, p.59, Bantam
“More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.”
“Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.”
“My brain goes very easily into the darkness. It always has. There are people who like to see what's under the rock and people who don't, and for some reason I've always been one of those to say, 'Hey, let's flip over that rock.'”
“People ask me, How would you do as a contestant on the show? And I tell them I would do fairly well among senior citizens, but against a good thirty-year-old I would have trouble because I cannot recall information as quickly as I used to. You used to say something and I would go, boom, right away, very sharp. Now it's like, Oh, yes, but wait a minute, uh, uh...”
“There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."”

Source : Gordon Willard Allport (1958). “The Nature of Prejudice”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
“Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!”
“Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.”

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