"Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm."

-- Gottfried Keller

#Kids Quotes #Long Quotes #Grandparent Quotes

“I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.”
“I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.”

Source : "Jason Isaacs: 'I like being anonymous'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2011.
“Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.”

Source : "Haile Gebrselassie shares secrets of his success". Interview with Susannah Palk, www.cnn.com. April 15, 2011.
“Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty”
“Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.”
“Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent.”
“The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or - much more mysteriously - to submit to it.”
“I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all?”

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