"I do not bring any professional knowledge of the issue to bear, but what I do bring to my consideration of immigration is a deepened and highly sensitized feeling with those persons who feel alien in our country. I can feel the strangeness they feel because it is something I have experienced in a different area."

-- Barbara Jordan

#Country Quotes #Issues Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“We all think that this relationship thing is a game out here. All I'm saying to women is, 'Okay. If it's a game, here are the rules that we play by.'”
“The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.”
“The way I relax is I think, 'I haven't got anything coming up.' I like to know there are months ahead when I've got nothing.”
“I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience”

Source : "Encounters: Architectural Essays". Book by Juhani Pallasmaa, 2006.
“Security is something when you don't have any confidence and you want somebody to pay you when you don't do the job.”
“Learn, he says, that there will be hours, days and months ahead of feeling absolutely terrible and nothing can change that; neither new girlfriends, health professionals, changes of diet, dope, humility, or God.”
“You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside.”
“We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.”

Source : Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1839). “Sermons”, p.129

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