"The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath."

-- Janet Fitch

#Laughter Quotes #Night Quotes #Smell Quotes

“There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still. As long as a child needs help, as long as people are not free, there will be work to do. As long as an elderly person is attacked or in need of support, there is work to do. As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.”

Source : Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan
“When a crisis occurs, I feel that one of my greatest responsibilities is to set a tone of calm no matter what the problems. Sometimes I have to fake confidence a lot. I also have to fake calm.”
“For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.”
“"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.”

Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The First and the Last: The Rise and Fall of the German Fighter Forces, 1938-1954”
“With each game I play, with each season I play, I'm running out of chances... you're never guaranteed next year. You're never guaranteed the next game. You have to seize the opportunity when it's there in front of you.”

Source : "Favre Knows That Time Is Quickly Running Out". Interview with Judy Battista, www.nytimes.com. January 29, 2004.
“Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.”
“There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.”
“My approach is I put God first; I say "God willing" all the time. The only way things will change is with God. So knowing that I can't really change anything, I'm just going to satire it.”

Source : Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. May 14, 2006.

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