"After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life folk sit about the fire and stay warm, for the chill of death is upon them, and even the thickest bearskin can't keep off the shivering."

-- Jane Smiley

#Life Quotes #Summer Quotes #Winter Quotes

“He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.”
“It's kind of ironic that when you look at the evidence of intelligence and so on, a lot of it is anecdotal. A lot of it is, "Well, we saw this dolphin do this extraordinary thing," or, "We screwed up with our apparatus, and then the dolphins did this." And so it seems to me that the more we can actually watch them doing their thing, the better chance we'll have of making some sense of them.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.”
“Oh Alexander," she said, "what do you want from me..." "Everything!" he whispered fiercely.”
“It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with beer, and I've always liked that.”
“In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.”

Source : Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.13, Beard Books
“We all only have 1440 minutes a day. Accept you can't do it all, focus on what's important and do that well.”
“Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.”

Source : "BASEBALL; Marge Schott: Baseball's Big Red Headache" by Ira Berkow, www.nytimes.com. November 29, 1992.

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