"It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?"

-- Lisa Gardner

#Children Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Men Quotes

“The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.”
“I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It's extremely liberating. I breathe differently.”

Source : "Driven: Shai Agassi's audacious plan to put electric cars on the road" by Daniel Roth, www.wired.com. August 18, 2008.
“Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didnâ€™t give it to you, because He knew you wouldnâ€™t be able to pay it.”
“Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.”
“There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.”
“Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.”

Source : Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.191, Simon and Schuster
“I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.”
“If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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