"The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of a pair of magnets pretending not to be magnets. Which, you know, only works until it doesn't."

-- Laini Taylor

#Love Quotes #Two Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.”

Source : Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.128, Knopf
“I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.”
“We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled, have to be practiced.”
“What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole body you will remember for the rest of your life.”
“A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.”
“Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives”
“I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what Iâ€™m going to say, or where itâ€™s going. I have some idea of how long itâ€™s going to be -- but not what will happen or what the themes will be. Thatâ€™s the intrigue of doing it -- itâ€™s a process of discovery. You get to discover what youâ€™re going to say and what itâ€™s going to mean.”
“If you feel that the Chief of the General Staff talks only rubbish, my place is not here. Better to give me a command at the front where I can be of better use!”

Source : "Field Marshal Von Manstein, a Portrait: The Janus Head" by Marcel Stein, Gwyneth Fairbank, (p. 164), 2007.

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